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The neurotic... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.

Otto Rank

While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.

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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 ones fellowmen.

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For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.

Otto Rank

Otto Rank

Otto Rank

Born: April 22, 1884

Died: October 31, 1939 (aged 55)

Bio: Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and teacher.

Known for:

The Trauma of Birth (1924)
Art and artist (1932)
Beyond Psychology
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero (1914)
A psychology of difference

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