Otto Rank

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Otto Rank
Born	Otto Rosenfeld 22 April 1884 (1884-04-22) Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	31 October 1939(1939-10-31) (aged 55) New York City, US
Known for	Psychoanalytic look at heroes and their births The Double Relationship and existential therapy
Spouse	Beata Rank
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Influences	Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard
Academic work
Discipline	Psychoanalysis, philosophy
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Influenced	Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Sándor Ferenczi, Jessie Taft, Carl Rogers, Paul Goodman, Rollo May, Irvin Yalom, R. D. Laing, Ernest Becker, Stanislav Grof, Matthew Fox, Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Nella Larsen, Salvador Dalí, Martha Graham, Samuel Beckett

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Important works The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) Psychology of the Unconscious (1912) Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) The Ego and the Id (1923) Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1964) Anti-Oedipus (1972) The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
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Otto Rank (/rɑːŋk/; Austrian German: [raŋk]; né Rosenfeld; 22 April 1884 – 31 October 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and philosopher. Born in Vienna, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, until publishing his theory on the Trauma of Birth, which marked the beginning of an ideological split from Freudism. Rank was a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes, editor of the two leading analytic journals of the era, including Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse (“International Journal of Psychoanalysis”),^[1] managing director of Freud's publishing house, and a creative theorist and therapist. In 1926, Rank left Vienna for Paris and, for the remainder of his life, led a successful career as a lecturer, writer, and therapist in France and the United States.