First Page. PDF. In his last years, Otto Rank turned his lifetime of thought and learning toward two of the most difficult topics in human history: religion and the soul. The soul and the beliefs about it, he argues, set forth the foundation for psychology, with its complex analyses of consciousness, self-consciousness, and Semantic Scholar profile for Otto Rank, with 7 highly influential citations and 9 scientific research papers. Psychology and the Soul: A Study of the Origin, Conceptual Evolution, and Nature of the Soul. In his last years, Otto Rank turned his lifetime of thought and learning toward two of the most The Double and Doubles in Literary Psychology Since Rank and Tymms investigated essentially the same topic, a The remainder of E ( F ) calls attention to twinship as the earliest manifestation of the "Double-soul" (pp. 84-92), to the hero as embodying both the mortal and the immortal self (pp. 93-96) Otto Rank (1884-1939) wrote the present work at the height of his creative powers, between Will Therapy and Art and Artist. Unlike Sigmund Freud, his mentor, Rank viewed religion with respect and clarifies its role in individual and communal life through this study of soul-belief through the ages. PDF | Otto Rank's work has had an indirect influence on much of existential?humanistic psychology, yet his contribution has been unevenly Artist ( Rank, 1907 ), to his later work encompassing such topics as the " hero ". motif in myth ( Rank, 1909 ) and the double in literature ( Rank, 1914 ), Rank. Otto Rank had a destiny that was far larger than trying to cure individuals living in social systems that produced dubious distinctions between what was the Another important Rank book first became available in a full English translation in 1998: Psychology and the Soul: A Study of the Origin In his last years, Otto Rank turned his lifetime of thought and learning toward two of the most difficult topics in human history: religion and the soul. The result was this now-classic work, available in this new, very accessible English translation. Unlike many other intellectuals of the twentieth century This authoritative study of psychologist Otto Rank covers his groundbreaking work, as well as his connections to Freud, Jung, and others. Austrian psychologist Otto Rank is one of the most influential figures in modern psychotherapy. A protege? of Sigmund Freud, he made significant developments in Otto Rank (/r???k/; German: [?a?k]; ne Rosenfeld; 22 April 1884 - 31 October 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and teacher. Born in Vienna, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes Psychology and the soul by Otto Rank, 1950, University of Pennsylvania P.; Oxford U.P edition, in English. Psychology and the soul. Otto Rank's ''Seelenglaube und Psychologie.