The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of MythJHU Press, 01/11/2015 - 200 من الصفحات First published in German in 1909, Otto Rank's original The Myth of the Birth of the Hero offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyche. Like his mentor Sigmund Freud, Rank compared the myths of such figures as Oedipus, Moses, and Sargon with common dreams, seeing in both a symbolic fulfillment of repressed desire. In a new edition published thirteen years after the original, Rank doubled the size of his seminal work, incorporating new discoveries in psychoanalysis, mythology, and ethnology. This expanded and updated edition has been eloquently translated by Gregory C. Richter and E. James Lieberman and includes an introductory essay by Robert A. Segal as well as Otto Rank's 1914 essay "The Play in Hamlet." |
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... womb rather than because he blocks the son's Oedipal yearning. Fear of the father is a displacement of fear of the mother, who, moreover, has abandoned, not castrated, her son. Sexual desire for the mother is likewise a means of ...
... in hero myths exposure on water symbolizes birth, water symbolizes the amniotic fluid, and the “little chests, baskets, or ships” in which the newborn is placed symbolize the womb (pp. 55, 58). But the meaning of xviii introductory essay.
... womb; so that the exposure directly signifies the process of birth, although it is represented by its opposite” (1914, 69–70). But if the pattern is guiding the symbolism, exposure as birth should symbolize exposure as death, not vice ...
... womb, “first passing through the doors of the palace and then through the doors of the bedchamber” (ibid.). Oedipus' reemergence from the palace symbolizes rebirth—and the beginning of healing. For Rudnytsky, Sophocles' play fits ...
... womb. Oedipus' “blindness in the deepest sense represents a return into the darkness of the mother's womb, and his final disappearance through a cleft rock into the Underworld expresses once again the same wish tendency to return into ...
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Translators Introduction | xxxix |
Preface to the First Edition | xlv |
Preface to the Second Edition | xlvii |
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 The Cycle of Myths | 9 |
3 The Interpretation of the Myths | 47 |
Toward an Analysis and Dynamic Understanding of the Work | 93 |
Notes | 105 |
References | 129 |
Index | 143 |