The myth of the birth of the hero and other writings

Title essay tr. by F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe 1st pub. in 1914 by the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. Other writings: Sections I-7 are from Art and Artist, tr. from German by Charles Francis Atkinson, c 1932 by Knopf. Sections 8and 11are from Modern Education, tr. from German by Mabel E. Moxon, c1932 by Knopf. Sections 9 and 10 are from, respectively, Will therapy and Truth and reality, both tr. from German by Jessie Taft, c1936 by Knopf.

The myth of the birth of the hero. 1 Introduction. 2 The circle of myths. 3 The interpretation of the myths. Other writings. 1 Introduction (to Art and Artist). 2 Creative urge and personality development. 3 Life and creation. 4 Art-form and ideology. 5 The artist's fight with art. 6 Success and fame. 7 Deprivation and renunciation. 8 Sexual enlightenment and the sexual impulse. 9 Life fear and death fear. 10 Self and ideal. 11 Forms of kinship and the individual's role in the family

'Of Otto Rank...Ludwig Lewisohn said: "...he has gradually and at last triumphantly brought the psychological interpretation of cultural phenomena from the nineteenth to the twentieth century....Dr. Rank...has come upon a dynamic element in the human psyche and has reinstated in its proper place and function the psychology of the will....He has descended to the centre from which all cultural phenomena radiate...."'

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