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Art and Artist

Creative Urge and Personality Development

Otto Rank author Charles Francis Atkinson translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:6th Dec '89

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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, his major statement on the relationship of art to the individual and society, pursues in a broader cultural context Freud's ideas on art and neurosis and has had an important influence on many twentieth-century writers and thinkers, beginning with Henry Miller and Anais Nin.

Art and Artist explores the human urge to create in all its complex aspects, 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, reaching beyond psychology to a broad understanding of human nature.

ISBN: 9780393305746

Dimensions: 185mm x 127mm x 30mm

Weight: 575g

532 pages