Sigmund Freud - Life and Work
Otto Rank
Rank worked out with the passing of years a theory which, in the hope to shorten the cures, claims to take a more direct path towards the ultimate source
of the anguish that he locates in the experiment of the birth. From this point of view, Rank concluded that it was not necessary to carry out the long work of
typical analysis of the traditional cures, and that a short work focusing directly with the sources first of any anguish would make it possible to cure the neuroses.
Rank accomplished a stay of almost eight years in Paris which enabled him to bind with Laforgue, Allendy, Henry Miller, and Anais Nin. He made there also
the analysis of some members of the analytical community. However, his stay in France had few consequences on the establishment of the psychoanalysis in this country.
In 1934, Rank decided to take again the road of the United States where he continued his career. Many tried an analysis of this turn of Rank while speaking about his filial relation
with Freud, of discovered at Freud of a cancer of the jaw or relations often tended within the committee. What seems to have counted for much, on the
other hand, it is the greeting very cordial (and lucrative) which he received in the United States where he gained a great success. Copyright René DesGroseillers |
After having been during several years one of the closest collaborators of Freud, Otto Rank (1884-1939) moved away during the Twenties, while pushing search further on the active techniques
undertaken in liaison with Ferenczi. Not only Rank he did not go into reverse when several, whose Freud, underlined the dangers of such practices, but he was further
working out a theory which, as it was the case of several dissidents, rejects into the shade the sexual aspects of the psychical conflict. Copyright 1998-2007, AROPA. All rights reserved.
