Otto Rank

Otto Rank (1884 - 1939) was a Psychologue and Psychanalyste of Austrian origin . He is one of the first to have practiced what Freud would call the Analyze profane.

Biographical fragments

Otto Rank is born with Vienna, on April 22nd, 1884, under the name of Otto Rosenfeld . It changes name at the 19 years age, from its conflict relation with his father.

At the time of the creation of the secret committee, it forms part of it: it is one of the first psychoanalysts. He becomes secretary of Freud, which admires it much, brilliant Rank being, particularly given in spite of his birth in a precarious medium.

In 1924, it publishes the traumatism of the birth , being interested in what is before the Oedipus complex , and proposing a vision different from that of Sigmund Freud, which will lead this last to take distance.

In 1926, Rank settles in Paris. It analyzes Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, of which he was also the lover. He also travelled to America, where he met a certain success. He dies in 1939, in New York.

Influence

Otto Rank extended the psychoanalysis to the study of the Mythe S and Légende S and of the Art.

Works of Rank

will of happiness , Paris, Stock, 1972;
Art and the artist: creativity and development of the personality , Paris, Payot, 1983, ISBN 2228893455
" Psychoanalyze and sciences humaines" with Hans Sachs, (1913), Paris, University Presses of France (PUF), 1980, ISBN 2130364357
the Myth of the birth of the hero, test of a psychoanalytical interpretation of the myth (1909), followed legend of Lohengrin, Paris, Payot, 1983;
a contribution to the Narcissism (1911), Paris, in Topics, 1974;
Don Juan and the double , 1914 2002, Payot-Shores, N°23, ISBN 2228895148
Will and Psychotherapy , Paris, Payot Shores, ISBN 2228896233
Traumatism of the birth (1924), Paris, Payot Shores, 2002, Trad S. Jankélévitch, ISBN 2228895512
" Prospects for the psychanalyse" , 1994 with Sándor Ferenczi, Payot-Shores, 1994, ISBN 2228888702

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