A Psychology of Difference : : The American Lectures / / Otto Rank; ed. by Robert Kramer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Rank, Otto,
• MitwirkendeR: Kramer, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Kramer, Robert,
• TeilnehmendeR: May, Rollo.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; CHRONOLOGY OF RANK'S LIFE (1884-1939) --; EDITOR'S NOTES TO THE READER --; INTRODUCTION Insight and Blindness: Visions of Rank --; PART ONE THE TRAUMA OF BIRTH: "A MUCH STRONGER REPRESSION THAN EVEN INFANTILE SEXUALITY" --; ONE Psychoanalysis as General Psychology (1924) --; TWO The Therapeutic Application of Psychoanalysis (1924) --; THREE The Trauma of Birth and Its Importance for Psychoanalytic Therapy (1924) --; FOUR Psychoanalysis as a Cultural Factor (1924) --; PART TWO EXPLORING THE DARK CONTINENT OF MATERNAL POWER: "THE 'BAD MOTHER' FREUD HAS NEVER SEEN" --; FIVE Foundations of a Genetic Psychology (1926) --; SIX Development of the Ego (1926) --; SEVEN The Problem of the Etiology of the Neurosis (1926) --; EIGHT The Anxiety Problem (1926) --; NINE The Genesis of the Guilt-Feeling (1926) --; TEN The Genesis of the Object Relation (1926) --; PART THREE FROM PROJECTION AND IDENTIFICATION TO SELF-DETERMINATION: "EMOTIONS ARE THE CENTER AND REAL SPHERE OF PSYCHOLOGY" --; ELEVEN Love, Guilt, and the Denial of Feelings (1927) --; TWELVE Emotional Suffering and Therapy (1927) --; THIRTEEN The Significance of the Love Life (1927) --; FOURTEEN Social Adaptation and Creativity (1927) --; FIFTEEN The Prometheus Complex (1927) --; SIXTEEN Parental Attitudes and the Child's Reactions (1927) --; PART FOUR TOWARD A THEORY OF RELATIONSHIP AND RELATIVITY: "i AM NO LONGER TRYING TO PROVE FREUD WAS WRONG AND I RIGHT" --; SEVENTEEN Speech at First International Congress on Mental Hygiene (1930) --; EIGHTEEN Beyond Psychoanalysis (1928) --; NINETEEN The Yale Lecture (1929) --; TWENTY Neurosis as a Failure in Creativity (1935) --; TWENTY-ONE Active and Passive Therapy (1935) --; TWENTY-TWO Modern Psychology and Social Change (1938) --; PRIOR PUBLICATION OF LECTURES --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691216379; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691216379?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Otto Rank; ed. by Robert Kramer.

A leading disciple and confidant of Freud, Otto Rank revolutionized the field of psychoanalytic theory in The Trauma of Birth (1924). In this book, Rank proposed that the child's pre-Oedipal relationship to the mother was the prototype of the therapeutic relationship between analyst and patient. Although Rank is now widely acknowledged as the most important precursor of humanistic and existential psychotherapy--influencing such well-known writers as Carl Rogers, Rollo May, and Ernest Becker--Rank's knotty prose has long frustrated readers. In this volume of Rank's lectures, Robert Kramer has brought together for the first time the innovator's clearest explanations of his most influential theories. The lectures were delivered in English to receptive audiences of social workers, therapists, and clinical psychologists throughout the United States from 1924 to 1938, the year before Rank's untimely death. The topics covered include separation and individuation, projection and identification, love and will, relationship therapy, and neurosis as a failure in creativity. The lectures reveal that Rank, much maligned by orthodox analysts, invented the modern object-relations approach to psychotherapy in the 1920s. In his introduction, based on private correspondence between Rank, Freud, and others in the inner circle, Robert Kramer tells the full story of why Rank parted ways with Freud. The collection of lectures constitutes a "readable Rank," filled with insights still relevant today, for those interested in the humanistic, existential, or object- relational aspects of psychotherapy, or in the development of the psychoanalytic movement.