Ranks Otto

Psychology and the Soul Ranks Otto

PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SOUL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SOUL Otto Kank s SEELENGLAUBE UNO PSYCHOLOGIE Translated by WILL AM D. TURNER PH LADELPH A UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS 1950 TRANSLATORS PREFACE WHILE eighteen years have passed since Dr. Otto Rank pub lished his Seelenglaube und Psychologic, the durability of his theses, and the shift in psychological thinking from German-to English-speaking peoples, have seemed to justify the present translation. Because a psychological point of view is not a matter of sheer intellect, psychological convictions are apt to be firm, and psychological pioneers correspondingly rare. One really discovers a new point of view only through the painful relinquishment of an old one, and a translator as such can only prepare for this discovery to the extent of putting the new point of view into the learners native language when it is not already there. If the present translation docs just this much, and helps thereby to minimize the duplication of creative effort t