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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... feelings which the child harbors against his father, and which in this fiction are projected against the father” (Rank 1914, 68–69).9 What the hero seeks gets masked as power, not incest. Most of all, who the hero is becomes some third ...
... feelings of guilt and anxiety, how it constitutes a form of adaptation to reality and to the group in which the individual lives, and how it influences the crystallization of the individual identity and the formation of the superego ...
... later—in, above all, the Oedipal stage. The relationship to the mother is originally that of union, and the deepest feelings toward her are those of dependence and identification. With birth comes introductory essay xv.
... feelings toward the mother are ambivalent. Like the father for Freud, the mother for Rank is feared as well as loved. Rankian therapy seeks to reestablish the original bond, though now with the therapist. The therapist is not a blank ...
... feelings of loss and rejection, thereby stirring even more guilt. Therapy seeks to enable patients to experience separation without either guilt or anxiety. There are four kinds of persons: average, creative, neurotic, and antisocial ...
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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