A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures
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.

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A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures
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.

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A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691044705
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 07/28/1996
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Otto Rank (1884-1939) was the author of many works, including Will Therapy, Truth and Reality, Art and Artist, and Beyond Psychology. He emigrated from Vienna to Paris in 1926, and moved permanently to the United States in 1935. Robert Kramer is the author of articles and reviews on organizational behavior and the history of psychoanalytic thought.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Chronology of Rank's Life (1884-1939)
Editor's Notes to the Reader
Introduction. Insight and Blindness: Visions of Rank3
Pt. 1The Trauma of Birth: "A Much Stronger Repression Than Even Infantile Sexuality"
1Psychoanalysis as General Psychology (1924)51
2The Therapeutic Application of Psychoanalysis (1924)66
3The Trauma of Birth and Its Importance for Psychoanalytic Therapy (1924)78
4Psychoanalysis as a Cultural Factor (1924)85
Pt. 2Exploring the Dark Continent of Maternal Power: "The 'Bad Mother' Freud Has Never Seen"
5Foundations of a Genetic Psychology (1926)99
6Development of the Ego (1926)107
7The Problem of the Etiology of the Neurosis (1926)112
8The Anxiety Problem (1926)116
9The Genesis of the Guilt-Feeling (1926)131
10The Genesis of the Object Relation (1926)140
Pt. 3From Projection and Identification to Self-Determination: "Emotions Are the Center and Real Sphere of Psychology"
11Love, Guilt, and the Denial of Feelings (1927)153
12Emotional Suffering and Therapy (1927)166
13The Significance of the Love Life (1927)177
14Social Adaptation and Creativity (1927)189
15The Prometheus Complex (1927)201
16Parental Attitudes and the Child's Reactions (1927)211
Pt. 4Toward a Theory of Relationship and Relativity: "I Am No Longer Trying to Prove Freud was Wrong and I Right"
17Speech at First International Congress on Mental Hygiene (1930)221
18Beyond Psychoanalysis (1928)228
19The Yale Lecture (1929)240
20Neurosis as a Failure in Creativity (1935)251
21Active and Passive Therapy (1935)260
22Modern Psychology and Social Change (1938)264
Prior Publication of Lectures277
References279
Index285

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"Decades ahead of his time. . . Rank explores in simple English the rich interplay between the I and the Thou, separation and union, the individual and the collective, will and love, creativity and guilt."—from the foreword by Rollo May

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Decades ahead of his time. . . Rank explores in simple English the rich interplay between the I and the Thou, separation and union, the individual and the collective, will and love, creativity and guilt.

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"Decades ahead of his time. . . Rank explores in simple English the rich interplay between the I and the Thou, separation and union, the individual and the collective, will and love, creativity and guilt."—from the foreword by Rollo May

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