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Otto Rank
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Otto Rank (1884–1939) was an author whose literary output includes 98 works. Among his notable publications are *Der Künstler*, *Grundzüge einer genetischen Psychologie*, *Gestaltung und Ausdruck der Persönlichkeit*, *Bericht über die Fortschritte der Psychoanalyse in den Jahren 1914-1919*, and *Sexualität und Schuldgefühl*. He is also associated with a quote stating that the neurotic is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.
In a separate context, a musical group named Otto Rank is identified as a Dutch electronic act. This group performs in genres including anthem trance, dutch trance, and euphoric trance. The artist is categorized under the country code NL and the area of the Netherlands.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1884
- Died
- 1939
- Works
- 98
Top works
- Der Künstler
- Grundzüge einer genetischen Psychologie
- Gestaltung und Ausdruck der Persönlichkeit
- Bericht über die Fortschritte der Psychoanalyse in den Jahren 1914-1919
- Sexualität und Schuldgefühl
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Active from
- 1997
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 5
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- On the Origin of Cancer Cells
· 1956 · cited 11,441x
- Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report
· 1982 · cited 11,179x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,235x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.”
- “While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- 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 , The pre-Oedipal stage, Existential therapy
- Spouse
- Beata Rank
- Alma mater
- University of Vienna
- Influences
- Sigmund Freud , Friedrich Nietzsche , Søren Kierkegaard
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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 became one of Sigmund Freud's closest collaborators, served as secretary of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, and edited leading psychoanalytic journals while publishing studies of myth and creativity. His book The Trauma of Birth (1924) proposed that the anxiety of birth precedes the Oedipus complex, coined the term "pre-Oedipal," and triggered a decisive break with Freud's developmental theory. Rank established psychotherapy practices in Paris and New York, where he promoted relationship-based treatment that emphasized emotional presence in the analytic encounter. He influenced existential and humanistic therapy, social work, and action learning, and his ideas on creativity and the double continue to inform psychological and cultural criticism.
Early life and Freud's circle
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