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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... meaning of the hero myth gets covered up by the concocted story, which makes the father, not the son, the culprit. The pattern is simply “the excuse, as it were, for the hostile feelings which the child harbors against his father, and ...
... hero myths exposure on water symbolizes birth, water symbolizes the amniotic fluid, and the “little chests, baskets, or ships” in which the newborn is placed symbolize the womb (pp. 55, 58). But the meaning of xviii introductory essay.
... meaning of these elements still comes from the dreams of would-be mothers, not fathers. It is not easy to tie the dreams recounted here to the two wishes that Rank retains from the first edition: the wish for perfect parents, which is ...
... meaning of the Oedipus myth in later writings32 but whether he does so in The Myth of the Birth of the Hero. For all his increasing attention to birth, I do not think that he does. The real shift in the meaning of hero myths comes with ...
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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 |