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Otto Rank
Otto Rank (April 22, 1884–October 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist
who extended psychoanalytic theory to the study of legend, myth, art,
and other works of creativity. Born in Vienna as Otto Rosenfeld, he was
also one of Sigmund Freud's closest aides and later colleagues and finally
critic. He is the most prolific author in the "Ring" besides
Freud himself. His breaking with Freud was because of Rank's placing greater
emphasis on birth trauma than the Oedipus complex.
Rank favored a more egalitarian relationship with patients and is sometimes
considered the forerunner of client-centered therapy. Among his patients
were many artists including Anais Nin.
He died in New York City in 1939 from a kidney infection.
| Year |
German Title (Current Edition) |
English Translation (Current Edition) |
| 1907 |
Der Kunstler |
The Artist |
| 1909 |
Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden (Turia & Kant, 2000,
ISBN 3851321413) |
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero (Johns Hopkins, 2004, ISBN
0801878837) |
| 1911 |
Die Lohengrin Sage [doctoral thesis] |
The Lohengrin Saga |
| 1912 |
Das Inzest-Motif |
The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend (Johns Hopkins,
1991, ISBN
0801841763) |
| 1913 |
Die Bedeutung der Psychoanalyse fur die Geisteswissenschaften
[with Hanns Sachs] |
The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Mental Sciences |
| 1914 |
chapters in Sigmund
Freud's Die Traumdeutung |
The Interpretation of Dreams |
| 1924 |
Das Trauma der Geburt (Psychosozial-Verlag, 1998, ISBN
3932133250) |
The Trauma of Birth, 1929 (Dover, 1994, ISBN
0-486-27974-X) |
| 1924 |
Entwicklungsziele der Psychoanalyse [with Sandor Ferenczi] |
The Development of Psychoanalysis / Developmental Goals
of Psychoanalysis |
| 1925 |
Der Doppelgänger [written 1914] |
The Double (Karnac, 1989, ISBN
0946439583) |
| 1929 |
Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit |
Truth and Reality (Norton, 1978, ISBN
0393008991) |
| 1930 |
? |
Will Therapy, 1936 (Norton, 1978, ISBN
0393008983) |
| 1930 |
Seelenglaube und Psychologie |
Psychology and the Soul (Johns Hopkins, 2003,ISBN
0801872375) |
| 1932 |
Kunst und Künstler (Psychosozial-Verlag, 2000,ISBN
3898060233) |
Art and Artist (Norton, 1989, ISBN
0-393-30574-0) |
| 1932 |
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Modern Education |
| 1941 |
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Beyond Psychology (Dover, 1966, ISBN
0-486-20485-5) |
| 1996 |
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A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures [talks
given 1924-1938; edited and with an introductory essay by Robert Kramer]
(Princeton, 1996, ISBN
0691044708) |
Major works about Otto Rank.
1. Karpf, Fay Berger (1970). The Psychology and Psychotherapy of Otto
Rank: An Historical and Comparative Introduction. Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press. ISBN 0837130298.
2. Lieberman, E. James (1985). Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto
Rank.
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