The Myth of the Birth of the Hero

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero

by Otto Rank
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/11/2015

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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."

ISBN:
9781421419145
9781421419145
Category:
Psychology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-11-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press

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