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Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth (Expanded and Updated)

Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth (Expanded and Updated)

Rank, Otto
Richter, Gregory C.
Lieberman, E. James

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Mythology & FolkloreGeneral PsychologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1421418436
ISBN13: 9781421418438
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Sep 10 2015
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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