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The Psychology of Death in Fantasy and History
Jerry S. Piven
Book Code: C8178
ISBN: 0-275-98178-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98178-5
336 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2004
List Price: $107.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Graduates students, researchers, faculty, and professionals.
    —Choice     November 2004
Description: This volume investigates the impact of death consideration on such phenomena as Buddhist cosmology, the poetry of Rilke, cults and apocalyptic dreams, Japanese mythology, creativity, and even psychotherapy. Death is seen as a critical motivation for the genesis of artistic creations and monuments, of belief systems, fantasies, delusions and numerous pathological syndromes. Culture itself may be understood as the innumerable ways that societies defend themselves against helplessness and annihilation, how they mould and recreate the world in accordance with their wishes and anxieties, the social mechanisms employed to deny annihilation and death. Whether one speaks of the construction of massive burial tombs, magical transformations of death into eternal life, afterlives or resurrections, the need to cope with death and deny its terror and effect are the sine qua non of religion, culture, ideology, and belief systems in general.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Approaching Death by Jerry S. Piven
  • Death, Power, and the Politics of Self-Destruction by Siamak Movahedi
  • Buddhism, Death, and the Feminine by Jerry S. Piven
  • Uncanny Dolls: Images of Death in Rilke and Freud by Eva-Maria Simms
  • Death, Fantasy, and Religious Transformations by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
  • Europe's Culture of Death by Rudolph Binion
  • Creativity and Death by Hans-Jurgen Wirth
  • The Idol and Idolizers by Daniel Liechty
  • Thoughts for the Times on Terrorism, War, and Death by Hans-Jurgen Wirth
  • Love, Separation, and Death in a Japanese Myth by Yuko Katsuta
  • Fundamentalism, Defilement, and Death by George Victor
  • Death, Neurosis, and Normalcy by Jerry S. Piven
  • Unveiling Mexican Cultural Essences: Death and Spirituality by Luz Maria Solloa Garcia
  • Adaptive Insights into Death Anxiety by Robert Langs
  • Laughing at Death by Neil Elgee
  • The Contributors
LC Card Number: 2003062438
LCC Class: BF789
Dewey Class: 155
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