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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... fact is his own. He is the real hero of the myth, which, properly deciphered, is not biography but autobiography. Literally, the myth culminates in the hero's attainment of a throne. Symbolically, the hero gains a mate as well. One ...
... fact, he seems to echo Arlow, himself uncited, in maintaining that “Myths typically involve superego demands in conflict with id-motivated action, and with the selfpreserving desires of the ego” (Bettelheim 1977,37). But for Bettelheim ...
... fact that the individual unconsciously identifies with the idealized qualities of the mythological hero” (Arlow 1982,188). For Arlow, as for Freud, Rank, and Abraham, myth represents a compromise, but not, as for them, in the form of ...
... fact the interpretation changes sharply in The Trauma of Birth. If in The Trauma of Birth the hero's first deed is, as in Myth, birth itself—“birth is the real achievement” (1929, 131, n. 1)—the hero simultaneously wants to remain in ...
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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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