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Otto Rank
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Key facts
- Born
- Otto Rosenfeld , 22 April 1884 ( 1884-04-22 ) , Vienna , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 31 October 1939 (1939-10-31) (aged 55), New York City, US
- Known for
- Psychoanalytic look at heroes and their births , The Double , The pre-Oedipal stage, Existential therapy
- Spouse
- Beata Rank
- Alma mater
- University of Vienna
- Influences
- Sigmund Freud , Friedrich Nietzsche , Søren Kierkegaard
- Discipline
- Psychoanalysis , philosophy
- Institutions
- University of Pennsylvania
- Influenced
- Sigmund Freud , Carl Jung , Sándor Ferenczi , Jessie Taft , Carl Rogers , Paul Goodman , Rollo May , Irvin Yalom , R. D. Laing , Ernest Becker , Stanislav Grof , Matthew Fox , Anaïs Nin , Henry Miller , Lawrence Durrell , Nella Larsen , Salvador Dalí , Martha Graham , Samuel Beckett
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Otto
- Family name
- Rank
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- New York City
- Spouse
- Beata Rank-Minzer
- Occupation
- psychoanalyst
- Educated at
- University of Vienna
- Languages spoken
- German
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- psychoanalysis
- Image
- Otto Rank obituary photo.png
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- Otto Rank
- influenced by
- Henrik Ibsen
- date of death
- 1939-10-31
- date of birth
- 1884-04-22
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Otto Rank
- place of burial
- Ferncliff Cemetery
- cause of death
- sepsis
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Encyclopedic overview
Otto Rank (/rɑːŋk/; Austrian German: [raŋk]; né Rosenfeld; 22 April 1884 – 31 October 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and philosopher. Born in Vienna, he became one of Sigmund Freud's closest collaborators, served as secretary of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, and edited leading psychoanalytic journals while publishing studies of myth and creativity. His book The Trauma of Birth (1924) proposed that the anxiety of birth precedes the Oedipus complex, coined the term "pre-Oedipal," and triggered a decisive break with Freud's developmental theory. Rank established psychotherapy practices in Paris and New York, where he promoted relationship-based treatment that emphasized emotional presence in the analytic encounter. He influenced existential and humanistic therapy, social work, and action learning, and his ideas on creativity and the double continue to inform psychological and cultural criticism.
Early life and Freud's circle
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