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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... complex. Most of all, Rank establishes a common plot for myths. True, he can do so because, unlike Abraham, he limits himself to hero myths, but he boldly implies that all myths can be seen as hero myths. In addition to The Myth of the ...
... complex. When he declares that “a deeper generalization and clarification is expressed in the idea of birth in the water, which also represents the exposure myth par excellence—birth itself” (p. 66), he is referring to the ...
... complex. Certainly many commentators stress Oedipus' pre-Oedipal traumas of abandonment, mutilation, and adoption.28For example, Peter Rudnytsky argues that Sophocles' play “enacts a return to Oedipus's infancy” (1991, 19). Working ...
... complex. Now the son is the culprit because he instigates the fight to the death with his father and does so to gain access to his mother. To quote Rank anew: “The fictitious romance [i.e., the myth] is the excuse, as it were, for the ...
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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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