Rank, Otto,  1884-1939 <br/><br/>
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A psychological interpretation of mythology 

 - 1 online resource :  multiple file formats 
 - Nervous and mental disease monograph series, no. 18 .
 - Nervous and mental disease monograph series, no. 18 .
<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Birth_of_the_Hero  Release date is 2021-08-31 
<br/><br/>Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) 
<br/><br/> "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A psychological interpretation of mythology" by Otto Rank is a psychoanalytic study published in 1909. Rank examines birth legends of ancient and medieval heroes—from Moses and Oedipus to Siegfried and Jesus—uncovering recurring motifs of royal parentage, threatened infancy, rescue, and recognition. He proposes a universal pattern underlying these narratives, rooted in Freudian psychology. The work became foundational in hero-myth analysis, though later scholars challenged its psychoanalytic premises and claims of universal application. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
<br/><br/>
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>14012461 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Heroes Psychology, Pathological Mythology -- Psychological aspects 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL