The Myth of the Birth of the Hero A Psychological Exploration of Myth [#950510]

Free Download Otto Rank, "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth"
English | ISBN: 1421418436 | 2015 | 200 pages | AZW3 | 435 KB
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.