The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of MythJHU Press, 1 nov 2015 - 200 pagina's First published in German in 1909, Otto Rank's original The Myth of the Birth of the Hero offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyche. Like his mentor Sigmund Freud, Rank compared the myths of such figures as Oedipus, Moses, and Sargon with common dreams, seeing in both a symbolic fulfillment of repressed desire. In a new edition published thirteen years after the original, Rank doubled the size of his seminal work, incorporating new discoveries in psychoanalysis, mythology, and ethnology. This expanded and updated edition has been eloquently translated by Gregory C. Richter and E. James Lieberman and includes an introductory essay by Robert A. Segal as well as Otto Rank's 1914 essay "The Play in Hamlet." |
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... psychoanalyst Otto Rank (1884–1939), the American mythographer Joseph Campbell (1904–87), and the English folklorist Lord Raglan (1885–1964). Rank later broke irreparably with Sigmund Freud, but when he wrote The Myth of the Birth of ...
... psychoanalysis entitled The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Mental Sciences (trans. 1916). Their chapter on “Myths and Legends” matches the analysis in the first edition of The Myth of the Birth of the Hero. For Rank, following ...
... Psychoanalysis. The first issue to be considered is how much psychoanalysis—main- stream psychoanalysis—has changed since 1909. Led by the development of ego psychology, which has expanded psychoanalysis from a theory of abnormal ...
... Psychoanalysis has a greater contribution to make to the study of mythology than [merely] demonstrating, in myths, wishes often encountered in the unconscious thinking of patients. The myth is a particular kind of communal experience ...
... psychoanalysis, Rank's analysis seems classically Freudian. Myths are like dreams.20Myths are also like fairy tales. All three evince the satisfaction of repressed, antisocial wishes.21The mythic hero topples his father, not submits to ...
Inhoudsopgave
vii | |
Translators Introduction | xxxix |
Preface to the First Edition | xlv |
Preface to the Second Edition | xlvii |
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 The Cycle of Myths | 9 |
3 The Interpretation of the Myths | 47 |
Toward an Analysis and Dynamic Understanding of the Work | 93 |
Notes | 105 |
References | 129 |
Index | 143 |
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