Biography of otto rank association

Otto Rank, cropped from the larger group photograph shown below.
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Otto Rank () was the first lay analyst, or non medically-qualified member, of the pioneering Vienna Psychoanalytic (Psa.) Society.

Biography of otto rank association

Alfred Adler () introduced him to the group in , and he likely attended one or more meetings of the nascent Wednesday Psychological Society, (Jones , "Emergence from Isolation"). Rank appears to have been from an under-privileged background, and to have received much encouragement from Freud to complete his education.

Rank attended the University of Vienna where, in , he presented a pioneering psycho-literary study of the Lohengrin Saga, an opera with medieval themes by Richard Wagner (). Previously Freud had also steered Rank to the successful publication of a book, Der K¨nstler (The Artist), in

Freud held Rank in such high esteem that he appointed him to ta number of important positions in the