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Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development
 
 

Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development (Paperback)

by Anais Nin (Foreword), Otto Rank (Author) "Since I originally approached the art-problem from the psychological side, and wish now, too, to study it in relation to the development of personality, the..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co (6 Dec 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0393305740
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393305746
  • Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 71,747 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Along with Adler and Jung, Otto Rank was one of the intellectual giants in the inner circle around Sigmund Freud. "Art and Artist" was first published in 1932, after he had broken ranks with Freud and was living in Paris. Rank's thought has had an important influence on many twentieth-century writers and thinkers, beginning with Henry Miller and Anais Nin. "Art and Artist" explores all the complex aspects of the human urge to create, in terms not only of individual works of art but of religion, mythology and social institutions as well. Based firmly on Rank's knowledge of psychology and psychoanalysis, it ranges widely through anthropology and cultural history.

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Since I originally approached the art-problem from the psychological side, and wish now, too, to study it in relation to the development of personality, the historical method of presentation, which is usual in art-histories, is barred. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rank's masterpiece, the culmination of his cultural analysis, 25 Aug 1998
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Beginning with a monograph in 1907 that first brought him to Freud's attention, Otto Rank became his mentor's closest colleague until 1926. The present work, published in 1932, follows three earlier elaborations of the first monograph, and covers artistic endeavor, language, play, architecture, etc. through the ages as an expression of a striving for individual/communal immortality and a reconciliation with mortality. The creative type lives life, affirming the inevitable, while the neurotic is frozen with life-fear. A fine translation reads well but Ludwig Lewisohn's terrific preface has been replaced here with one by the lighter-weight but better-known Anais Nin. The book rewards study; see an excerpt on the Otto Rank Website.
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