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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Otto Rank"”.
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Dark Doubles and Dual Audience: What Uncanny Doppelgangers in Children’s Literature Teach Readers
… literature to studies by Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank, who discuss uncanny doppelgangers in romanticism, and by further using narratological concepts, author interviews and reader reviews to evaluate the motif’s meaning for a story and potential messages it sends to readers. An analysis of …
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Internal Punishment: A Psychoanalytical Reading of F. M. Dostoevskyʼs Crime and Punishment (1866), L. Rebreanuʼs Ciuleandra (1927) and P. Ackroydʼs Hawksmoor (1985)
… Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan and Otto Rank. My psychoanalytical readings of the texts are furthermore complemented by the theoretical frameworks offered by Mikhail Bakhtinʼs theory of polyphony, Linda Hutcheonʼs account of historiographic metafiction and relevant philosophical …
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The Modernist Anti-Mental: Literary Life-Writing, Neurology and Medical Psychology, 1860-1939
… of Anaïs Nin and psychological writings by Otto Rank in order to challenge the modernist attempt to portray anti-mentality in textual forms.
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Understanding the Holocaust: Ernest Becker and the "Heroic Nazi"
This paper examines the power and limitations of historical analysis in regards to explaining the Holocaust and in particular the widespread consent to the Nazi program. One of the primary limitations that emerges is an inability of historians to fully engage other social sciences to offer a more …
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'Sie rief mich aus der Nacht': The Birth Complex in Nietzsche and Wagner
… The primary reference I build on here is Otto Rank’s theory of birth trauma, as set out in Das Trauma der Geburt (1924). To me, Rank’s theorisation of the trauma of birth is a translation into psychoanalytic language of Nietzsche’s philosophy, which itself arose with a translation into …