ESTHER MENAKER (1907-2003). Born in Bern, Switzerland, Esther came to the United States at three. She majored in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and completed her M.S.W. in the School of Social Work where Jessie Taft, Rank’s friend and translator, was teaching. She and William Menaker married in 1930; he was a dentist turned psychologist. [...]
Ueber Das Trauma der Geburt Einfuehrung von E. James Lieberman von Otto Ranks The Trauma of Birth, Introduction, Dover, 1994 [1924/1929 Deutsch/English]. Remarks in English follow this text, which is the German translation of the intro to the 1994 Dover edition, now out of print. Eines der bedeutendsten Buecher in der Geschichte der Psychologie,Das Trauma [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Truth & Reality Steve Nyberg, graduate student Adelphi University; e-mail icelandspar AT aol.com “How many times do we hear nowadays the expression, ‘I cannot understand what is going on,’ indicating that our conception of the human being is insufficient to account for something which must be human after all, but which we have to consider [...]
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 [...]
The Anxiety Problem Otto Rank answers Freud on Anxiety, 1926 Reprinted from A Psychology of Difference: Rank’s American Lectures Robert Kramer, Ph.D., ed., Princeton University Press, 1996. Read before the New York School of Social Work, October, 1926 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, –Closely connected with the problem of the neuroses, indeed almost identical with it, is the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]