The Trauma of Birth by Otto Rank

Author:Otto Rank [Rank, Otto]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

HEROIC COMPENSATION

When we look back from our newly gained standpoint to the psychoanalytic investigation of myths, we notice that it was here, where the material speaks a more universal language than in the neuroses and psychoses, that the importance of the birth trauma was first brought home to us. Already “The Myth of the Birth of the Hero,” which Freud with his keen observation had recognized as the nucleus of the myth formation, could have thrown full light on the question if we had been sharers in those analytic experiences, for they would have encouraged us to admit a still greater value in these “fairy tales” and, according to Freud’s injunction,1 to re-translate these phenomena of projection into psychology. Instead of this the general human tendency, to react with repression to any too clear approach to the recognition of the primal trauma, led to an evaporation of this first clear insight into Jung’s anagogic ethical interpretation of myths.

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