TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rank,Otto
AU  - Jelliffe,Smith Ely
AU  - Robbins,F.
TI  - The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A psychological interpretation of mythology
T2  - Nervous and mental disease monograph series, no. 18
AV  - BL 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Heroes
KW  - Psychology, Pathological
KW  - Mythology -- Psychological aspects
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Birth_of_the_Hero; Release date is 2021-08-31; 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); Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66192
ER  -