The significance of psychoanalysis for the mental sciences

by Otto Rank

Otto Rank (April 22, 1884 – October 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and teacher within the then developing non-dual theoretical paradigm (Bohr [physics], Gödel [mathematics], Wittgenstein [philosophy]). Born in Vienna as Otto Rosenfeld, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes, an editor of the two most important analytic journals, managing director of Freud's publishing house and a creative theorist and...