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" It is indeed impossible to imagine our own death; and whenever we attempt to do so we can perceive that we are in fact still present as spectators. Hence the psycho-analytic school could venture on the assertion that at bottom no one believes in his own... "
Death Is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law, and ... - Page 8
by Robert A. Burt - 2002 - 232 pages
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Last Letters from the Living Dead Man

Elsa Barker, David Patterson Hatch - 1919 - 256 pages
...psychology himself said, in a recent little volume on "War and Death," translated by Dr. AA Brill: "In the unconscious every one of us is convinced of his own immortality." Suppose the unconscious should be right? And, by the way, between the statement of Christian Scientists,...
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The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change

David E. Stannard - 1977 - 256 pages
...we attempt to do so we can perceive that we are in fact still present as spectators. Hence . . . 3 at bottom no one believes in his own death, or, to put the same thing in another way, in the unconscious every one of us is convinced of his own immortality." Writing at almost precisely...
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Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law: An Essay on Human Rights and Overcriminalization

David Richards - 1986 - 334 pages
...that we are in fact still present as spectators. Hence the psycho-analytic school could venture on the assertion that at bottom no one believes in his own...every one of us is convinced of his own immortality. Freud, "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death," in 14 Standard Edition, supra note 164, at 289. 237....
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Horrendous Death, Health, and Well-being

Daniel Leviton - 1991 - 396 pages
...answer was psychological denial of personal death. "Our own death is indeed unimaginable," he wrote, "At bottom no one believes in his own death, or to put the same thing in another way. in the unconscious every one of us is convinced of his own immortality" (cited in Rickman, 196S, p....
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Horrendous Death and Health: Toward Action

Daniel Leviton - 1991 - 366 pages
...Prevention, intervention, postvention personal death. "Our own death is indeed unimaginable," he wrote, "... at bottom no one believes in his own death, or to put the same thing in another way, in the unconscious every one of us is convinced of his own immortality" (Freud, as quoted in Rickman,...
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Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima

Robert Jay Lifton - 1991 - 612 pages
...of course, of Freud's celebrated dictum that "at bottom no one believes in his own death . . . [and] in the unconscious every one of us is convinced of his own immortality,"77 but the Hagakure more specifically stresses the idea of perpetually surviving others....
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Psychoanalytic Theory of Greek Tragedy

C. Fred Alford - 1992 - 236 pages
...has no unconscious equivalents. Says Freud, "it is indeed impossible to imagine our own death. . . . In the unconscious every one of us is convinced of his own immortality."28 On the contrary, says Lifton, many of the most profound anxieties, such as loss of...
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The Subject of Philosophy

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - 1993 - 236 pages
...that we are in fact still present as spectators. Hence the psycho-analytic school could venture on the assertion that at bottom no one believes in his own...every one of us is convinced of his own immortality. 31 Death cannot—any more than can the woman's or the mother's sex—present itself as such, "in person,"...
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The Subject of Philosophy

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - 1993 - 236 pages
...that we are in fact still present as spectators. Hence the psycho-analytic school could venture on the assertion that at bottom no one believes in his own...unconscious every one of us is convinced of his own immortality.31 Death cannot -any more than can the woman's or the mother's sex -present itself as such,...
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Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille

Maryline Lukacher - 1994 - 240 pages
...Freud, death cannot be represented in our unconscious: "The psycho-analytic school could venture on the assertion that at bottom no one believes in his own...every one of us is convinced of his own immortality" (SE, 14:289) It is part of Freud's clinical experience to discover that although the unconscious is...
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