The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth Hardcover - 2004
by Otto Rank; Gregory C. Richter (Translator); E. James Lieberman (Translator)
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Nearly all prominent civilized nations, including Babylonians and Egyptians, Hebrews and Indians, Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as the 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.
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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."
Otto Rank (1884-1939), one of the most important figures in psychoanalysis, was the author of The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend: Fundamentals of a Psychology of Literary Creation and Psychology and the Soul: A Study of the Origin, Conceptual Evolution, and Nature of the Soul. Gregory C. Richter, PhD, is a professor of German and linguistics at Truman State University. E. James Lieberman, MD, is professor emeritus of clinical psychiatry and behavioral sciences at George Washington University. Robert A. Segal, PhD, is the Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
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- Title The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth
- Author Otto Rank; Gregory C. Richter (Translator); E. James Lieberman (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition th
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
- Date September 1, 2004
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780801878831 / 0801878837
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.44 x 0.82 in (23.27 x 16.36 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Heroes, Psychology, Pathological
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003021416
- Dewey Decimal Code 202.13
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