Guide to in-print Otto Rank publications Some Rank books out of copyright are being reprinted. Described as new, they have been superseded by better editions. Myth of the Birth of the Hero appeared in German in 1909–he was only 25–English in 1914. The 2nd edition, almost twice as large, appeared in German in 1922, English in 2004–the [...]
Psychotheological Integration in the 1950s The Journal of Psychotherapy as a Religious Process 1 by Hendrika Vande Kemp Psychotherapy as a Religious Process 1 1Portions of this chapter were presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association in Los Angeles, CA, August 1985, the American Academy of Religion, Anaheim, CA, November 1985, and the [...]
WHY OEDIPUS REALLY LOVED HIS FATHER E. James Lieberman Since Sigmund Freud’s time, the extent to which little boys hate their fathers has been greatly exaggerated. The founder of psychoanalysis introduced the Oedipus complex in 1910, based on an ingenious though strained interpretation of the Sophocles drama. Freud believed that a strong–largely unconscious–hostility toward the [...]
THE BIRTH OF CLIENT-CENTERED THERAPY: CARL ROGERS, OTTO RANK, AND ”THE BEYOND” ROBERT KRAMER taught executive leadership at American University, now teaches at the Washington DC branch of the Chicago School of Psychology (robertkramer at thechicagoschool.edu). He is an internationally recognized authority on action learning and consults on leadership development to organizations worldwide. He is [...]
The Evolution of Psychotherapy Since Freud by E. James Lieberman, M.D. In 1906, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), neurologist and first psychoanalyst, hired a young locksmith, Otto Rank (1884-1939), as secretary of the Wednesday Psychological Society–the future Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Freud, then 50, became a second father to the brilliant, self-taught, working-class youth of who was alienated [...]
I. Kunstschaffen und Persoenlichkeitsentwicklung I. Creative Urge and Personality Development The struggle of the artist against the art-ideology, against the creative impulse and even against his own work also shows itself in his attitude towards success and fame; these two phenomena are but an extension, socially, of the process which began subjectively with the vocation [...]
Homer: Psychological Contributions to the Genesis of the National Epic by Otto Rank. Imago V, 1917. Translation by Gregory Richter of the opening pages. What shall live immortally in song Must perish in life. –F. Schiller, “The [...]
Translators’ note This essay, until now untranslated, dates from the middle of Rank’s 20 year association with Freud, and between the two editions of Myth of the Birth of the Hero. It shows the psychoanalytic virtuosity for which Rank was known during the early years of the movement. Based on the traditional Freudian construct of [...]
Update, 2012 The Freud-Rank correspondence, about 250 letters, most previously unpublished, has been transcribed and translated, and installed in a database. Gregory Richter translated the original German; editorial work done by E. James Lieberman and Robert Kramer; grant support for translation costs has been received from the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Rank [...]
OTTO RANK’S CRITIQUE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN LIGHT OF PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty ofThe California School of Professional Psychology at Alameda In Partial Fulfillmentof the Requirements of the DegreeDoctor of Philosophy By Robert Kamin JANUARY 2002 OTTO RANK’S CRITIQUE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN LIGHT OF PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS This dissertation, by Robert Kamin, [...]