The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of MythJHU Press, 2015 M11 1 - 200 páginas 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." |
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... comes later—in, above all, the Oedipal stage. The relationship to the mother is originally that of union, and the deepest feelings toward her are those of dependence and identification. With birth comes introductory essay xv.
... comes the first trauma: that of separation. Because the mother carries the fetus yet then bears it—kicks it out—and because the mother feeds yet also weans her child, feelings toward the mother are ambivalent. Like the father for Freud ...
... comes from the dreams of would-be mothers, not fathers. It is not easy to tie the dreams recounted here to the two ... come out of the 'water.' The basket, box or receptacle simply means the container, the womb; so that the exposure ...
... comes only long after the parricide and so can hardly be the spur to it.27 Rank could have used the inadvertent nature of the parricide to downplay Oedipus' Oedipus complex. Certainly many commentators stress Oedipus' pre-Oedipal ...
... comes with The Trauma of Birthitself, in which Rank systematically interprets seemingly all of human life to fit the birth trauma. Fear of the dark, oral and anal activities, sexual activities of every variety, neurotic symptoms ...
Contenido
vii | |
Translators Introduction | xxxix |
Preface to the First Edition | xlv |
Preface to the Second Edition | xlvii |
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 The Cycle of Myths | 9 |
3 The Interpretation of the Myths | 47 |
Toward an Analysis and Dynamic Understanding of the Work | 93 |
Notes | 105 |
References | 129 |
Index | 143 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth Otto Rank Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth Otto Rank Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth Otto Rank Vista previa limitada - 2004 |