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News & Articles Sheldon Solomon makes Otto Rank understandable
| Sheldon Solomon makes Otto Rank understandable |
| Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:31 |
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Otto Rank is a prime source for Ernest Becker's synthesis, but reading Rank in the original is very frustrating for most of us.
We are fortunate in the EBF to have 2 published Rank scholars in our ranks, Robert Kramer and E. James Lieberman. Jim wrote Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank, and Bob, Otto Rank’s A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures. Also, luckily, our Becker communicator par excellence, Sheldon Solomon, gave us a lecture introducing Rank that is available on CD. Here is Bob Kramer praising Sheldon’s Intro to Otto Rank: To order the CD (the tape has been digitized and renamed) go to the Store: And take a look around the Store for other materials you might find of interest. |
Becker on Otto Rank"Rank was—as the young people say—'something else' You cannot merely praise much of his work because in its stunning brilliance it is often fantastic, gratuitous, superlative; the insights seem like a gift, beyond what is necessary." From the preface to Denial of Death more on Otto Rank here |