The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Interpretation of Mythology - Softcover

Otto, Rank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1445508257 ISBN 13: 9781445508252

Publisher: Read & Co. Books, 2015

Synopsis

Originally published in 1914, this fascinating volume in the Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series presents a psychological interpretation of characters from classical mythology, from Oedipus to Perseus, and Hercules to Jesus. Authored by Dr Otto Rank (1884-1939), an associate of Sigmund Freud, it is suited to those interested in the classics, history and mythology, and psychoanalysis alike. Chapters include: introduction - Sargon - Moses - Karna - Oedipus - Paris -Telephos - Perseus - Gilgamos - Kyros - Tristan - Romulus - Hercules - Jesus - Siegfried - Lohengrin. We are republishing this rare, vintage text in a high quality, modern and affordable edition, complete with a specially written concise biography.

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Review

"Nearly all prominent civilized nations, including Babylonians and Egyptians, Hebrews and Indians, Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as Germanic peoples and others, have left us literatures in which, early on, they glorify national heroes--mythical princes and kings, and founders of religions, dynasties, empires, and cities--in many poetic tales and legends. The history of the birth and youth of these supermen came to be especially invested with fantastic features, which in different nations, though widely separated by space and entirely independent of each other, present a baffling similarity or, in part, a literal correspondence...The ultimate problem is not whence and how the material reached a certain people. That question is, Where did it come from to begin with?"

About the Author

About the Author:

"Otto Rank (April 22, 1884 - October 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna as Otto Rosenfeld, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for twenty years, a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes, an editor of the two most important analytic journals, managing director of Freud's publishing house and a creative theorist. In 1925, after Freud accused Rank of "anti-Oedipal" heresy, he chose to leave the inner circle and move away from Vienna with his wife, Tola, and infant daughter, Helene. For the remaining fifteen years of his life, Rank had an exceptionally successful career as a lecturer, writer and therapist in France and the U.S." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Edition details

• Publisher: Read & Co. Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1445508257
• ISBN 13: 9781445508252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168