AuthorBecker, Ernest
TitleThe birth and death of meaning : an interdisciplinary perspective on the problem of man / by Ernest Becker
Imprint New York : Free Press, 1971
Edition 2nd ed.
Descript x, 228 p. ; 21 cm.

CONTENT

Man-apes -- Origins of the mind -- Distinctively human -- Socialization: creation of the inner world -- New meaning of the Oedipus complex -- Culture and personality -- Staging of the self-esteem -- Hero-systems -- What is normal? -- What would a science of man then be -- Religion: the quest for the ideal heroism


SUBJECT

  1. Philosophical anthropology
  2. Psychiatry

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