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The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A psychological interpretation of mythology

Chapter 3: NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE MONOGRAPH SERIES
By Otto Rank
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The work surveys recurrent birth-and-origin motifs in hero legends from diverse cultures and subjects them to a psychoanalytic reading. It interprets patterns such as endangered infancy, concealment or exile, miraculous survival, and later triumph as symbolic expressions of familial tensions, birth-related anxieties, and ambivalent parent-child dynamics. Through comparative analysis and close readings of many traditional accounts, the author argues that these shared story-structures stem from universal psychic processes rather than solely from historical transmission. The study pairs theoretical discussion with illustrative case studies to support its psychological explanation.

NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE MONOGRAPH SERIES

Edited by
Drs. SMITH ELY JELLIFFE and WM. A. WHITE
Numbers Issued

1. Outlines of Psychiatry. (4th Edition) $3.00. By Dr. William A. White.
2. Studies in Paranoia. By Drs. N. Gierlich and M. Friedman.
3. The Psychology of Dementia Praecox. (Out of Print.) By Dr. C. G Jung.
4. Selected Papers on Hysteria and other Psychoneuroses. (2d Edition.) $2.50. By Prof. Sigmund Freud.
5. The Wassermann Serum Diagnosis in Psychiatry. $2.00. By Dr. Felix Plaut.
6. Epidemic Poliomyelitis. New York, 1907. (Out of Print.)
7. Three Contributions to Sexual Theory. $2.00. By Prof. Sigmund Freud.
8. Mental Mechanisms. $2.00. By Dr. Wm. A. White.
9. Studies in Psychiatry. $2.00. New York Psychiatrical Society.
10. Handbook of Mental Examination Methods. $2.00. By Shepherd Ivory Franz.
11. The Theory of Schizophrenic Negativism. $0.60. By Professor E. Bleuler.
12. Cerebellar Functions. $3.00. By Dr. André-Thomas.
13. History of Prison Psychoses. $1.25. By Drs. P. Nitsche and K. Wilmanns.
14. General Paresis. $3.00. By Prof. E. Kraepelin.
15. Dreams and Myths. $1.00. By Dr. Karl Abraham.
16. Poliomyelitis. $3.00. Dr. I. Wickmann.
17. Freud’s Theories of the Neuroses. $2.00. Dr. E. Hitschmann.
18. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero. $1.00. Dr. Otto Rank.

Copyright, 1914, by
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Publishing Company, New York

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