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"[Rank's thought] has implications for the deepest and broadest development of the social sciences . . . and of all [Rank's] books, Art and Artist is the most secure monument to his genius." -Ernest Becker 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. .

Along with Adler and Jung, Otto Rank was one of the intellectual giants in the inner circle around Sigmund Freud. "Art and Artist" was first published in 1932, after he had broken ranks with Freud and was living in Paris. Rank's thought has had an important influence on many twentieth-century writers and thinkers, beginning with Henry Miller and Anais Nin. "Art and Artist" explores all the complex aspects of the human urge to create, 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.