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Dans «Le miracle secret», Borges imagine la mort étrange d’un écrivain praguois que la Gestapo arrête en mars 1939 et condamne, au seul prétexte qu’il est juif et qu’il a été dénoncé comme tel, à être passé par les armes. La nuit qui précède son exécution, il a rêvé que la voix même de Dieu lui accorde le temps nécessaire pour achever son travail. Le lendemain à l’aube, entre le moment où les soldats du peloton braquent leurs fusils sur lui et celui de la décharge mortelle, le temps de l’«univers physique» est comme suspendu : l’écrivain remanie et accomplit en secret son «oeuvre», à jamais pourtant inachevée. À la considérer sous l’angle de son ultime «récit» publié, L’Instant de ma mort, et d’un énigmatique fragment «autobiographique» antérieur, «(Une scène primitive ?)», on est peut-être en droit d’estimer que le conte de Borges emblématise assez bien l’oeuvre «désoeuvrée» de Blanchot, tout entière écrite ou réécrite, achevée inachevable, dans le temps incommensurable qui sépare le 20 juillet 1944, date à laquelle il faillit être fusillé par les nazis (ou telle journée de l’hiver 1914 ou 1915, qui fut celle d’une extase enfantine), et la mort désormais survenue le 20 février 2003 : le temps atemporel de l’agonie native et de la mort immémoriale, «impossible nécessaire», qui aura autorisé la dernière méditation de celui qui avait interrogé sans relâche la Littérature ou l’Écriture dans sa possibilité même. Ce livre tente de proposer une lecture de ces deux textes. Plus exactement, il les interroge pour mettre à l’épreuve ce qui, à travers la hantise du « mourir », s’est joué quant aux catégories majeures de la fiction et du mythe, du testimonial et du testamentaire, de l’aveu et du secret, de la non-présence à soi et du retrait, de l’autre (éthique) et de l’être-ensemble (politique), etc. Mais surtout quant à ce qu’il faut bien se résoudre à nommer l’écriture posthume de Blanchot.

Blanchot, Maurice --- Fear of death --- Criticism and interpretation --- Death, Fear of --- Thanatophobia --- Death --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychological aspects --- Criticism and interpretation. --- モーリス・ブランショ --- Бланшо, Морис, --- Blansho, Moris, --- Blanshoy, Moris, --- Blanchot, Maurice - Criticism and interpretation

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This book aims to extend upon the growing body of literature concerned with dying and death. The book analyses various experiences and representations of dying and death from the perspective of academic disciplines as diverse as theology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and literature. The rationale for this is simple. As objects of study dying and death cannot be usefully reduced to a single academic perspective. One cannot hope to gain a deep and comprehensive understanding of dying and death by gazing at them through a single lens. Bringing various perspectives in a single volume aims to both accurately record those enduring properties of the phenomena, such as mourning and fear, whilst simultaneously analysing the diversity and heterogeneity of human beings' attempts to come to terms with this most forbidding of existential horizons.

Philosophical anthropology --- Attitude to Death. --- Death. --- Fear of death. --- Death, Fear of --- Thanatophobia --- Death --- Psychology, Pathological --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Psychological aspects --- Philosophy --- Reason. --- Mind --- Intellect --- Rationalism

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Eschatology, Greco-Roman --- Eschatologie gréco-romaine --- Death --- -Death --- -Fear of death --- -Death, Fear of --- Thanatophobia --- Psychology, Pathological --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Social aspects --- -History --- Religious aspects --- History --- Psychological aspects --- Philosophy --- Fear of death --- History. --- -Social aspects --- Eschatologie gréco-romaine --- Death, Fear of --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Social aspects&delete&

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Never has our culture been more aware of personal and global health hazards, from both within and without. While most people may feel some anxiety in this regard, some have an unbearable sense of dread that prevents them from functioning. Chronic health anxiety—heightened fears of illness, disease, and death—is a central feature of hypochondriasis, of course, but can also present as depression, generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, and other diagnoses. Treating Health Anxiety offers the professional reader not only an understanding of this condition, but also an easily implemented cognitive behavioral program for reducing fear of illness, overcoming fear of death, and getting more enjoyment from life, including: -Step-by-step coverage of the assessment process and therapy sessions -Client worksheets and self-monitoring forms -Specific guidelines for treating health anxiety in children and the elderly -Strategies for handling impasses and setbacks -Up-to-date guide to pharmacotherapy for health anxiety As media attention to health issues increases, client fears of illness won’t go away any time soon. Treating Health Anxiety gives prescribing and non-prescribing clinicians (as well as the counselors and social workers who encounter the problem) the tools to reduce both the fears and the medical costs that so often accompany them.

Anxiety --- Fear of death. --- Treatment. --- Death, Fear of --- Thanatophobia --- Death --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychological aspects --- Psychiatry. --- Psychology, clinical. --- Behavioral Therapy. --- Applied psychology. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Health Psychology. --- Psychotherapy and Counseling. --- Clinical psychology. --- Psychiatry --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Psychology --- Behavioral therapy --- Behavior modification --- Psychotherapy --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Behavioral therapy. --- Health psychology. --- Psychotherapy. --- Counseling. --- Counselling --- Helping behavior --- Clinical sociology --- Interviewing --- Personal coaching --- Social case work --- Therapy (Psychotherapy) --- Mental illness --- Mental health counseling --- Health psychology --- Health psychology, Clinical --- Psychology, Clinical health --- Psychology, Health --- Salutogenesis --- Clinical psychology --- Treatment

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Although many books are written about bereavement, very few are written about the fear of one's own death and most of these focus chiefly on terminal illness. In contrast, this book looks at the ways in which the fear of death operates on a back burner throughout our lives and how it influences the choices we make and the paths that we follow in life. The author presents a `moral hierarchy' of behavior used in coping with the fear of death and dying.

Conduct of life. --- Fear of death. --- Adaptation, Psychological --- Medicine. --- Psychiatry. --- Psychopharmacology. --- Clinical psychology. --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Psychology, clinical. --- Consciousness. --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Psychology --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Temperament --- Psychiatry --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Behavioral pharmacology --- Drugs --- Chemotherapy --- Pharmacology --- Psychotropic drugs --- Psychotropic effects --- Death, Fear of --- Thanatophobia --- Death --- Ethics, Practical --- Morals --- Personal conduct --- Ethics --- Philosophical counseling --- Psychological aspects