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A hesitant summary of Otto Rank,
This review is from: Truth and Reality (Norton Library) (Paperback)
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I'm glad to know there is someone else out there who wants to understand Otto Rank. Though I cannot fault the reviewer. Otto Rank is notoriously difficult to summarize. (And I think he wanted it that way.) But, if I may presume to summarize Rank, anyway, what Rank is saying is this: We necessarily obtain self-knowledge, not from within, but from without.. by way of projecting our identities into that which is, for example, scientifically verifyable, or by way of what attracts us or repels us, or keeps us safe, or simply alive, etc. But why this projecting, why is it necessary? Otto Rank took issue with Socrates... To "know thyself" is simply too big a job, and way too scary... and besides, it generally goes against the grain of the culture in which we are raised. This puts us all in a fix. On balance, the best we do is trick ourselves into self-knowledge. As individuals and as social groups. Hence, the necessity of our personal and social delusions. Without our delusions, we could not create culture, and individually we would, generally speaking, go crazy. In spite of this human quandary something inside tells us there is more. More to understand, more to experience who we are... This something has two primary aspects: "will" and its intimate companion, "conscious awareness". This is not the will of Nietzsche, nor of Schopenhauer. Not the will to power, not the will to no will. This is, at bottom, the will to awareness, a theme that runs indirectly through the works of Otto Rank beginning with his first, "The Artist" to his last "Beyond Psychology" And from this early point of closure--which reflects perhaps the initial quarter of what Rank is saying--I point the way to his works... beginning with his last, and then moving on to "Psychology and Soul," and then Robert Kramer's excellent compilation and clarifying of Rank's American Lectures. And then this one, "Truth and Reality," and then "Will Therapy." But only after you have read Rank's biography by E James Lieberman, MD, and then Jessie Taft's biography of Rank. Taft was Rank's therapy client, student, translator, advisor, job finder, intellectual challenger... she sponsored his entry into the US, and they were dear friends. That's my hesitantly comprised summary of the essential thinking of Otto Rank. It could change.
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As with all of my experiences with Rank, my eyes were opened by reading this book. In it, he discusses the nature, and paradoxes, of a multitude of human experiences. He also provides a compassionate critique of many of the then popular perspectives (i.e., Freudian). While I don't feel it's my place to summarize the book in it's entirety (that's what reading it is for), it certainly was worth the read and has earned a permanent place on my bookshelf!
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Fundamental reading for the inquirer of personality type.,
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A master of personality theory. Knew when to break from Frued and look for other motivations besides sex. One of my favorite philosophers. A must read for someone trying to get beyond Freudian psychology.
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THE lines of thought comprehended in this book constitute a preliminary statement of the final working out of a concept of the psychic which I had anticipated in the work of my youth "Der Kunstler" (1905) almost a quarter of a century ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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THE lines of thought comprehended in this book constitute a preliminary statement of the final working out of a concept of the psychic which I had anticipated in the work of my youth "Der Kunstler" (1905) almost a quarter of a century ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
will psychology, guilt consciousness, will affirmation, ideal formation, neurotic type, will accomplishment, will denial, guilt problem, willing itself, will expression, creative man, creative will Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Will Therapy (The Norton library) by Otto Rank in Front Matter, and page 1
- The Trauma of Birth by Otto Rank in Front Matter, and page 2
- Peer Gynt : A Dramatic Poem (Oxford World's Classics) by Henrik Ibsen on page 61
- The Development Of Psychoanalysis by Sandor Ferenczi in Back Matter
- Anaï¿1/2s Nin, Fictionality and Femininity (Oxford English Monographs) by Helen Tookey on 6 pages
- Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank by E. James Lieberman on 6 pages
- Anais Nin: Literary Perspectives by Suzanne Nalbantian on 4 pages
- Social Work Treatment 4th Edition by Francis J. Turner on page 326, and page 339
- Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom on page 293, and Back Matter
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