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	Otto Rank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Otto Rank (April 22, 1884 – October 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist.
		Rank was one of Freud's six close collaborators who were brought together in a secret "committee" or "ring" to defend the psycho-analytic mainstream as the disputes with Adler and then Jung developed.
		Rank was the most prolific author in the "Ring" besides Freud himself, extending psychoanalytic theory to the study of legend, myth, art, and other works of creativity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_Rank (942 words)

	Rank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rank is a very broad term with several meanings.
		As an adjective it used to mean profuse, conspicuous, absolute, or unpleasant, especially in relation to the sense of smell or taste.
		Rank (formation) Military term for a line of soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rank (165 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Otto Rank: A Forgotten Heresy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		...Rank argued, furthermore, that a good many of the supposed frustrations Freud attributed to childhood, or to the primitive ages of man, were, in actuality, non-existent, non-traumatic, or were analogues for the later adult frustrations, or of modern civilization itself...
		...Rank had biologized a psychological split, the emotional not the physical, separation from the mother, a separation, furthermore, not literally from the mother, but rather from a bio-emotional condition to which ratiocination was functionally, and necessarily, inimical...
		...Rank's awareness of this double edge to psychoanalytic knowledge was doubtless also at the root of his concept of "short-analysis"-one of his minor technical deviations before the schism-which established at any rate a time limit to the amount of analytic knowledge or interpretation that could be conveyed...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V30I3P45-1.htm (6085 words)

	Free-Essays.us - Otto Rank
		Otto (Rosenfield) Rank was born in Vienna, Austria on April 27, 1884.
		Otto’s family was not wealthy enough to send him and his brother to college, so Otto became a locksmith while his older brother studied law.
		Otto states in his introduction, “These myths will be given in abbreviated form as far as relevant for this investigation, with statements concerning provenance.” He proceeds to give many example stories of heroes.
	www.free-essays.us /dbase/c9/csk294.shtml (1433 words)

	Rank
		Rank calls this the "Family Romance": first the child idealizes its parents, but ultimately he or she is disenchanted with them.
		Rank says that daydreams, which rise from this activity of the imagination, contribute to mythologizing, And, although children themselves do not create great myths, as adults they contribute to the existing lore of their culture, adding to or modifying stories in ways that reflect their own experiene and feelings.
		Rank believes that sexual rivalry of the child with the father underlies the hero myth, but the myth does not directly mention this conflict.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/magrath/305f02/Rank1.html (6694 words)

	Guide, Otto Rank Papers, 1912-1936, University of Pennsylvania Archives
		Dr. Otto Rank, an internationally known psychologist, was born in Vienna in 1884.
		Rank attended the University of Vienna where he graduated with a Ph.D. He was considered a brilliant student of Dr. Sigmund Freud.
		Rank was concerned with the importance of the conscious.
	www.archives.upenn.edu /faids/upt/upt50/ranko.html (353 words)

	Presentation for English 673 -- Freud, Rank & Becker on Death
		Becker makes Rank's position on the repression of the cognizance of mortality more explicit through relating back to religion again (a theme which is particularly appropriate to reading Eliot's works) and the Rankian theory of libidinal repressions being caused by the symbolic denial of personal finitude.
		Becker derives from Rank what he terms the causa-sui pursuit, or the desire to be self-generating as a means to stepping outside of the cognizance of birth, which as with Eros and Thanatos, exists as a twin to death.
		In Rank's terms, the mortal birth is doubly the promise of finitude.
	www.ualberta.ca /~gifford/texts673.htm (3108 words)

	Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Rank, Otto (1884-1939) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rank attended trade school, despite recurring bouts of rheumatic fever, and became a locksmith, while his brother studied law.
		Rank argued that neurotics were failed artists who could regain their will through analysis, in a process of self-creation or rebirth.
		Rank's work was ignored for years, until the 1970s when it was resurrected by the psychologists Rollo May and Carl Rogers, among others, and by writers such as Anaïs Nin.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0005/ai_2699000598 (939 words)

	Zizek presentation -- English 567, April 7, 2001
		Rank himself, contrary to Rudnytsky's argument which precedes the recent major biography, continued to publish and lecture on psychoanalysis up to his death, and while he was a harsh critic of Freud, he did not abandon the field as useless, but instead claimed that it simply needed to go further than it had.
		As the history of psychoanalysis tells us, Rank was ejected from the womb-like shelter of the psychoanalytic movement for these very thoughts: the role of object-relations in the centrality of the mother, the primacy of fear (of death) over libido and dominance of the pleasure principle in motivating a 'stall tactic' against death.
		For Otto Rank, this move is described as the transition from creature to creator and is the means to accepting the inevitable without being crushed by its agency-denying and ego-denying nature.
	www.ualberta.ca /~gifford/textszizek.htm (6034 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Otto Rank
		Rank, Otto (1884-1939), Austrian psychologist and psychotherapist, born in Vienna, and educated at Vienna University.
		Another student of Freud, Otto Rank, introduced a new theory of neurosis, attributing all neurotic disturbances to the primary trauma of birth.
		Otto I (Holy Roman Empire), called Otto the Great (912-973), Holy Roman emperor (962-973), king of Germany (936-973), the son of the German king...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Otto_Rank.html (115 words)

	Sigmund Freud - Otto Rank
		Not only Rank he did not go into reverse when several, whose Freud, underlined the dangers of such practices, but he was further working out a theory which, as it was the case of several dissidents, rejects into the shade the sexual aspects of the psychical conflict.
		Rank worked out with the passing of years a theory which, in the hope to shorten the cures, claims to take a more direct path towards the ultimate source of the anguish that he locates in the experiment of the birth.
		From this point of view, Rank concluded that it was not necessary to carry out the long work of typical analysis of the traditional cures, and that a short work focusing directly with the sources first of any anguish would make it possible to cure the neuroses.
	www.freudfile.org /rank.html (306 words)

	Dr. Otto Rank: "Son" of Freud, Champion of Will, Philosopher of Helping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rank was Freud's closest disciple and colleague from 1906-1926, the formative years of the psychoanalytic movement.
		Rank, whose family was poor, earned his keep as Secretary of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.
		Brought to the attention of a wider public by Ernest Becker, Paul Goodman, Rollo May, Esther Menaker, Anais Nin, Carl Rogers, Jessie Taft, and Irvin Yalom, Otto Rank is regaining an audience interested in psychotherapy, creativity and the arts, humanistic psychology, feminism, and philosophy.
	www.ottorank.com (691 words)

	nasty - academia at its brattiest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For Rank, as with Barnes, the existential dread of death is the source of subsequent repressions, rather than the Freudian situation of death anxiety being derivative of more naturalized genetische or ‘genetic’ fears and anxieties of libido restriction.
		Rank also notably uses the Oedipal drama to bring his will psychology to the problem of “instinct and inhibition, Will and Counter-will” (Truth 52), describing the drama in terms of “a successful attempt to put the sexual instinct under the control of the individual will,” with the sexual instinct seen as “as strange will,...
		In Rank’s formulation, the child is the biological extension of the self in the repression of death-anxiety, and through projection it is the culmination of the causa-sui pursuit.
	nasty.cx /archives/000785.html (7332 words)

	The Trauma of Birth by Otto Rank, A Review
		Rank acknowledges the presence of doyles or physical body states by saying the child has "more than a vague memory" - what the child has is stored doyles that may be triggered by appropriate stimuli.
		Rank shows his understanding of the etiology of asthma in breathing restrictions, but assumes it must be related to parturition, that is, a birth trauma, whereas from the science of doyletics we can show that any breathing restriction event up to age five may lead to asthma.
		Rank acknowledges that the decisive point in the history of psychoanalysis was Breuer's discovery.
	www.doyletics.com /arj/ttobrev.htm (4891 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rank saw therapy as at times a contest of will between patient and therapist, a theoretical stance that, if taken seriously, presents an immense challenge to the scientific objectivity and professional detachment espoused by his colleagues in their struggle for scientific respectability and Professional status in society.
		Rank returned a different man, married, but with iron in his soul, his response to the collective trauma of the terrors of war.
		In fact Rank’s philosophy of helping challenges the core territory on which the system builders and their professional training Institutes are built, and his critique is as valid today as it was when he was writing it.
	www.epinions.com /content_40384171652 (4138 words)

	Rank, Otto. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rank, in collaboration with Hanns Sachs, founded the psychoanalytic journal Imago in 1912.
		Rank’s theoretical views, diverging from those of Freud, gave the birth trauma, rather than the Oedipus complex, the central position in the causation of psychoneurosis, claiming all neurotic anxiety to be a repetition of the physiological phenomenon of birth.
		Rank emigrated to the United States a few years before his death.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ra/Rank-Ott.html (201 words)

	The Birth Scene: Otto Rank Revival
		Rank was far ahead of his time, argues Menaker, and his thinking reflects the scientific ethos of our own time.
		Rank was aware that mortality is central to the human condition"that the fear of mortality and the wish for immortality are governing principles in the life of each individual, and that we play out our individual bids for immortality through creation, procreation, and identification.
		Rank (1996) believed that the mysteries and the problems of life and death cannot be removed but can only be alleviated.
	www.birthpsychology.com /healing/review2.html (1654 words)

	Otto Rank
		Rank served as secretary to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and as editor of its minutes, and from 1912 to 1924 he edited the Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse ("International Journal of Psychoanalysis").
		The book, which argued that the transition from the womb to the outside world causes tremendous anxiety in the infant that may persist as anxiety neurosis into adulthood, was seen by many members of the Viennese society as conflicting with the concepts of psychoanalysis.
		Rank's attempt to reduce all of psychology to a monolithic system based on the birth trauma is viewed as a serious departure from a scientific orientation.
	www.crystalinks.com /rank.html (717 words)

	E. James Lieberman - Psychology and the Soul by Otto Rank, co-translated and introduced by EJL
		Otto Rank treats it as a universal and essential belief for individuals and their societies, constant in function but evolving in form through millennia.
		Rank's introduction of the soul as an essential part of contemporary psychology helps explain a number of perplexing, irrational phenomena in contemporary life.
		Rank's optimistic leanings challenge the Freudian pessimism that was fueled by the grimmest events of the twentieth century.
	members.authorsguild.net /ejlieberman/work3.htm (1502 words)

	Otto Rank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is a passive, duty-bound creature that Rank suggests is, in fact, the average person.
		Rank's earliest work, in fact, concerned birth trauma, the idea that the anxiety experienced during birth was the model for all anxiety experienced afterwards.
		Otto Rank never founded a "school" of psychology like Freud and Jung did, but his influences can be found everywhere.
	www.ship.edu /~cgboeree/rank.html (885 words)

	Mythic Hero – Story about a god (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Otto Rank – Rank analyzed many myths and established a common plot for them---a manifest pattern, which he then translates into latent Freudian terms.
		Rank, a “Freudian”, felt that birth was the real trauma that led to the neurosis.
		Rank confines heroism to the first half of life and begins with the Hero’s birth; Campbell restricts it of the second half and begins with the Hero’s adventure.
	www.gprep.org /~donc/HeroRaglan.htm (1016 words)

	Ernest Becker Foundation Newsletter: September 1998
		Rank's writing style was very dense, circular and peppered with classical and Germanic literary references which are obscure to the English reader.
		This was perceived in Freud's inner circle as a challenge to the centrality of the Oedipus Complex and led to Rank's excommunication and exile from that circle.
		In this book, Rank suggests that while psychoanalysis and scientific psychology have utilized the observing ego to interpret human thought and behavior, there is no analysis of the observing ego itself.
	faculty.washington.edu /nelgee/newsletter/1998/0998/8c.htm (916 words)

	Otto Rank Book/Project Information
		Otto Rank: A Rediscovered Legacy by Esther Menaker, Columbia U. Press (1982) has a companion volume by her, Separation, Will, and Creativity: The Wisdom of Otto Rank (Aronson, 1996).
		Rank's Myth of the Birth of the Hero, 2nd ed.
		German translation Otto Rank: Leben und Werk, 1997, published by PsychoSozial- Verlag, Giessen, which also published a reprint of Das Trauma der Geburt [1924], 1998, with introductions by Ludwig Janus and E. Lieberman (the latter translated from the Dover 1994 English reprint).
	www.ottorank.com /update.htm (561 words)

	Johns Hopkins University Press \| Books \| Psychology and the Soul
		Rank's commentary is not limited to beliefs about individual souls but includes ideas about group souls, sometimes encompassing nations or generations.
		Rank suggests that it is in expression of group beliefs that the idea of the soul attains its greatest power.
		Otto Rank (1884-1939) was one of the most important students of Freud, especially famous for winning Freud’s admiration, then for striking out independently.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/title_pages/2209.html (548 words)

	Johns Hopkins University Press \| Books \| The Myth of the Birth of the Hero
		Originally published in German in 1909, Otto Rank's The Myth of the Birth of the Hero offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyche.
		For the second edition, Rank added anthropological considerations of primitive and civilized peoples to those of mythology; extensive discussions of birth dreams, flood legends, and rescue fantasies; and new mythological examples—among them Dionysus, Kullervo (a precursor of Hamlet), Trakhan, and Tristan—as well as fuller treatments of Sargon and Moses.
		Otto Rank (1884-1939), one of the most important figures in psychoanalysis, wrote several influential works on the mind, art, literature, and religion, including The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend and Psychology and the Soul, both published by Johns Hopkins.
	www.press-dev.jhu.edu /books/title_pages/3380.html (346 words)

	Rank, O.; Kramer, R., ed.: A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures.
		In this book, Rank proposed that the child's pre-Oedipal relationship to the mother was the prototype of the therapeutic relationship between analyst and patient.
		Although Rank is now widely acknowledged as the most important precursor of humanistic and existential psychotherapy--influencing such well-known writers as Carl Rogers, Rollo May, and Ernest Becker--Rank's knotty prose has long frustrated readers.
		The collection of lectures constitutes a "readable Rank," filled with insights still relevant today, for those interested in the humanistic, existential, or object- relational aspects of psychotherapy, or in the development of the psychoanalytic movement.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/5799.html (370 words)

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