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The Myth of the Birth of the Hero is a book by Austrian psychologist, Otto Rank. In this groundbreaking book, Rank applies the psychoanalytic method to comparative mythology, looking at a wide variety of Eurasian hero birth narratives, including Greek, Roman, Judeo-Christian, Indian, and Germanic legendary figures.
This book has 68 pages in the PDF version. This translation by F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe was originally published in 1914.
Production notes: This ebook of The Myth of the Birth of the Hero was published by Global Grey in 2020.
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