TY - BOOK AU - Becker,Ernest TI - The denial of death SN - 0029021502 AV - BD 444 B395d 1997 U1 - 155.93 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Free Press KW - Kierkegaard, Sören Aabye, KW - Freud, Sigmund, KW - Rank, Otto, KW - Death KW - Psychological aspects KW - Myth KW - Psychology KW - Heroes KW - Muerte KW - Aspectos psicológicos N1 - Companion vol.: Escape from evil; Includes bibliographical references; 1. Introduction: human nature and the heroic -- 2. The terror of death -- 3. The recasting of some basic psychoanalytic ideas -- 4. Human character as a vital lie -- 5. The psychoanalyst Kierkegaard -- 6. The problem of Freud's character, Noch Einmal -- 7. The spell cast by persons- the nexus of unfreedom -- 8. Otto Rank and the closure of psychoanalysis on Kierkegaard -- 9. The present outcome of psychoanalysis -- 10. A general view of mental illness -- 11. Psychology and religion: what is the heroic individual? ER -