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Acts of Will: Reviews

Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank E. James Lieberman Clothbound, Free Press, 1985. Paperback ed. with new preface, U. Massachusetts Press, 1993  French translation La volonte en acte: La vie et l’oeuvre d’Otto Rank, Paris: PUF, 1991. German translation Otto Rank: Leben und Werk Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 1997. “It fully matches in its [...]

Art and Artist

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 [...]

Psychology and the Soul

PSYCHOLOGY and the SOUL by Otto Rank Newly translated by Gregory Richter and E. James Lieberman, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Paperback edition, 2003.                 Order direct from Johns Hopkins University Press. Mention code NAF for discount. Beware: Unauthorized copies of the earlier (Turner, 1950) translation have been [...]

Updates

Update, 2012 The Freud-Rank correspondence, about 250 letters, most previously unpublished, has been transcribed and translated, and installed in a database.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 [...]

Quotes About Rank

Quotes About Rank The Best, Worst, and Oddest Things in Print about Otto Rank “The insights seem like a gift….Living as we do in an era of hyperspecialization we have lost the expectations of this kind of delight….Rank’s system has implications for the deepest and broadest development of the social sciences, implications that have only [...]

Books

Books As yet there is no complete published bibliography of Otto Rank. The Grinstein Index of Psychoanalytic Writings has his early works, including books and articles, but not the later ones. A chronological list of major works with information on editions and translations is found in Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto [...]