5 Quotes & Sayings By Otto Rank

Otto Rank was a Viennese psychiatrist who was one of the founders of the school of object relations theory. A former inmate at the Nazi concentration camps at Dachau, Buchenwald and Auschwitz, he emigrated to the United States in 1946 and became a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He worked with such luminaries as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, and was an early member of the Tavistock Institute in London.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Otto Rank
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In the religious myths, the creative will appears personified in God, and man already feels himself guilty when he assumes himself to be like God, that is, to ascribe this will to himself. In the heroic myths on the contrary, man appears as himself, creative and guilt for his suffering and fall is ascribed to God, that is, to his own will. Both are only extreme reaction phenomena of man wavering between his Godlikeness and his nothingness, whose will is awakened to the knowledge of its power and whose consciousness is aroused to terror before it. Otto Rank
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It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind. Otto Rank
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Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit.. . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel that is as a symbol of reward and recognition in the last analysis of acceptance by one's fellowmen. Otto Rank