Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393305746)

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.

Author: Otto Rank, Charles F. Atkinson
ISBN-10: 0393305740
ISBN-13: 9780393305746
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1989
Pages: 532
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.39h x 4.68w x 1.28d