Beyond Psychology
Freud most gifted heir walks away from the discipline entirely, arguing that people need myth and art rather than any explanation.
Rank last book, written in exile and published after his death in 1939, argues that psychology had become another way of avoiding the irrational, and that human beings need myth, art and belief rather than explanation. He had influenced Jung and analysed Anais Nin and Henry Miller, and this is where he breaks with the discipline entirely.
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The pioneering psychiatrist Otto Rank (April 22, 1884–October 31, 1939) — who strongly influenced Carl Jung and served as therapist to Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and other visionary artists — pulls the curtain on that illusion in Beyond Psychology (public library) — a book “pleading for the recognition and the acceptance of the irrational element as the most vital part of human life”.
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