Otto Rank is an almost forgotten disciple of Freud. He eventually parted
company with him because he thought that forever digging into the origin of
neuroses didn’t do much to cure them. A Psychology of Difference (Princeton
University Press, £30/$39.50, ISBN 0 691 04470 8) edited by Robert
Kramer, is a reprint of lectures Rank gave in the US in the 1920s and 1930s. By
this time he thought that repression was caused by individuals refusing to
accept birth and separation from their mothers. The jacket blurb says that Rank
used simple English. Don’t believe it.
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