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?
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Addresses the issue of mortality discussing how humans universally share a fear of death and examines the theories of leading thinkers on this subject including Freud, Rank, and Kierkegaard.