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Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch einer psychologischen Mythendeutung.

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First edition of this psychoanalytical investigation of mythological heroism, and the role of birth legends in the stories of heroes, by the German psychoanalyst Otto Rank (1884-1939), published as part of the series Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde under the editorship of Freud. Rank discusses, among others, Moses, Oedipus, Paris, Perseus, and Hercules. A second, greatly expanded edition appeared in 1922.

Grinstein 26474.

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