The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of MythJHU Press, 2015. nov. 1. - 200 oldal 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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... death of the hero. While Tylor, von Hahn, and Propp all had their own theories of myth, none applied his theory to hero myths. The three confined themselves to establishing a common plot, or pattern, for hero myths and did not ...
... death fear.” The conflict between id and superego is simply one place where the conflict between the desire to separate and the desire to unite is played out. The conflict cannot be resolved, but it can be diminished. Mental health ...
... death. For Rank, as for Freud, the father thus fears the newborn, but as a threat to his immortal self, not to his mortal one.25 The creative person forges not merely a new identity but an immortal one. Freud's own immortality came ...
... death, not vice versa. That Rank here makes exposure as death the symbol of exposure as birth underscores his preoccupation, even in the first edition, with birth itself. Beyond simply declaring exposure as death to symbolize exposure ...
... death, for Freud attributes the fantasy of birth to grander parents not just to the invidious comparison that the ... death—the parents oppose birth, so that birth defies death—how does averted death symbolize birth? Birth circumvents ...
Tartalomjegyzék
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 |
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The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth Otto Rank Korlátozott előnézet - 2004 |
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth Otto Rank Korlátozott előnézet - 2015 |
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth Otto Rank Korlátozott előnézet - 2004 |