Au début de l'année 1924, Otto Rank, qui commençait à s'écarter de la doctrine freudienne classique, publia un livre iconoclaste qui allait le rendre célèbre: "Le Traumatisme de la naissance". Il y soutenait l'idée qu'à la naissance tout être humain subit un traumatisme majeur qu'il cherche ensuite à surmonter en aspirant inconsciemment à retourner dans l'utérus maternel. Autrement dit, il faisait de la première séparation biologique d'avec la mère le prototype de l'angoisse psych...

Alive, fresh, and stimulating, the theme of The Double comprises the issues of identity, narcissism, and the fear of death — actually the core of human existence. Rank’s book is primarily a study of the double as it appeared in striking examples in German, French, Russian, English, and American literature from Goethe to Oscar Wilde.Originally published in 1971.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make av...

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero is a book by Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank in which he applies the psychoanalytic method to comparative mythology. Rank was one of the first scholars to explore the convergence between classical mythology and the mysteries of the human psyche. In this early visionary work, Rank anticipates the research of C.G. Jung and Joseph Campbell. His work deconstructs motifs in mythology such as the heroic quest, the flood myth, and birth-tales of the hero.

Sigmund Freud hired Otto Rank as his secretary and funded Rank's PhD in literature at the University of Vienna. In 1910, at age 26, Rank published 'A Dream That Interprets Itself'. Freud could not praise the essay highly enough; impressed by Rank's erudition, Freud invited his protégé to contribute two chapters, on poetry and myth, in 1914 to The Interpretation of Dreams. Thereafter, Rank's name would appear under Freud's on the title page of the foundational text of psychoanalysis for the...

A leading disciple and confidant of Freud, Otto Rank revolutionized the field of psychoanalytic theory in The Trauma of Birth (1924). In this book, Rank proposed that the child's pre-Oedipal relationship to the mother was the prototype of the therapeutic relationship between analyst and patient. Although Rank is now widely acknowledged as the most important precursor of humanistic and existential psychotherapy--influencing such well-known writers as Carl Rogers, Rollo May, and Ern...

Come nascono gli “eroi”Questo testo è unanimemente considerato uno degli studi più profondi e completi sul tema della nascita del mito dell’eroe secondo un’interpretazione piscoanalitica. Presentando il metodo interpretativo adottato, Rank fonda la legittimità della psicoanalisi come strumento di indagine della mitologia assumendola quale "proiezione" del "Mondo Interno" dell'Uomo. Dopo aver passato in rassegna alcuni tra i principali miti a partire da Sargon per ar...

Otto Rank, então doutor em Filosofia e Letras pela Universidade de Viena, passará a assinar com Freud a quarta edição da obra A interpretação dos sonhos, publicada em 1914. Logo em sua capa, encontramos a seguinte menção: vierte vermehrte Auflage mit Beiträgen von Dr. Otto Rank, "quarta edição ampliada, com contribuições do dr. Otto Rank". A mesma menção se encontra na edição seguinte, de 1919, e a referência às contribuições de Rank será mantida até a sétima edição da obra de Freud, publi...

Il libro tratta del fatto che “quasi tutti i principali popoli civili... fin da tempi remoti hanno celebrato nella poesia e nella leggenda i loro campioni, re e principi mitici, fondatori di religioni, di dinastie, di imperi, di città, in breve i loro eroi nazionali. In particolar modo la storia della nascita e dei primi anni di queste persone fu arricchita di peculiarità fantastiche, la cui stupefacente somiglianza, talvolta l’accordo letterale, in popoli diversi, separati da grandi dista...

The prominent civilized nations, such as the Babylonians, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Hindoos, the inhabitants of Iran and of Persia, the Greeks and the Romans as well as the Teutons and others, all began at an early stage to glorify their heroes, mythical princes and kings, founders of religions, dynasties, empires or cities, in brief their national heroes, in a number of poetic tales and legends. The history of the birth and of the early life of these personalities came to be especially inve...

The prominent civilized nations, such as the Babylonians, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Hindoos, the inhabitants of Iran and of Persia, the Greeks and the Romans as well as the Teutons and others, all began at an early stage to glorify their heroes, mythical princes and kings, founders of religions, dynasties, empires or cities, in brief their national heroes, in a number of poetic tales and legends. The history of the birth and of the early life of these personalities came to be especially inve...

First Published in 1999. This text outlines developments in psycho-analysis, from the consistent application of the method created by Freud and from the dotrine based on the method. The authors seek to gain a general and wider knowledge of the Unconscious.

Originally published in 1914, this fascinating volume in the Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series presents a psychological interpretation of characters from classical mythology, from Oedipus to Perseus, and Hercules to Jesus. Authored by Dr Otto Rank (1884-1939), an associate of Sigmund Freud, it is suited to those interested in the classics, history and mythology, and psychoanalysis alike. Chapters include: introduction - Sargon - Moses - Karna - Oedipus - Paris -Telephos - Perseus...