The Trauma of Birth
work by Rank
Also known as: “Das Trauma der Geburt und seine Bedeutung für die Psychoanalyse”
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discussed in biography
- In Otto Rank
…Bedeutung für die Psychoanalyse (1924; The Trauma of Birth) caused Rank’s break with Freud and other members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, which expelled him from its membership. The book, which argued that the transition from the womb to the outside world causes tremendous anxiety in the infant that may…
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