The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A psychological interpretation of mythology by Otto Rank - HTML preview

 

INDEX

Abraham, 15

Aleos, 21

Alkmene, 45

Akrisios, 22

Ambivalence, 70

Amphion and Zetos, 43

Anarchist, 93

Animal motives, 88

Apollo, 17

Artembares, 29

Arthurian legends, 55

Astyages, 29

Attenuation of myth, 78

Auge, 22

Babylonian myths, 12

Beating, 56

Beowulf, 60

Birth symbols, 69

Blancheflure, 38

Borrowing theories, 2

Box, 69

Bride true, 40

Brother myths, 87

Brothers, hostility of, 88

Buddha, 53

Child psyche and myth formation, 63

Childhood of hero, 81

Conflict of younger and older generations, 64

Content reversals, 72

Criminality and myths, 93

Criticism of parents, 64

Darab, 19

Daughter father, 77

Delusion formation, 91

Dirke, 46

Displacements in myths, 76

Dream and myth, 69

Dreams of water, 71

Dughda, 51

Duplication, 87

Egotism motives, 92

Elsa, 56

Erotic factors, 74

Exposure myths, 72, 73

Family relations, 62

Family romance of neurotics, 65

Father and hero, 61

Father and tyrant, 76

Father daughter, 77

Father replacement, 67

Feridun, 37

Flood myths, 25, 34

Fool motive, 90

Gilgamos, 23, 79

Grandfather replacement, 77

Hamlet, 76

Harpagos, 26, 27, 28

Hekabe, 20

Hercules, 44

Hero and father, 61

Hero and mother, 61

Hero myth, summary of, 67

Herod, 50

Horn, 55

Hostile brothers, 88

Hostility motives, 74

Hysteria and myth, 92

Hysterical fantasies, 92

Incest motive in myth, 83

Infantile imagination, 62

Infantile psyche and myth, 9, 10

Infantile sexual theory, 82

Interpretation summary, 79

Ion, 17

Iranese legends, 19, 36, 37

Isaac, 15

Isolde, 38, 39

Jesus, 47, 48, 49, et seq.

Judas myth, 19

Kaikaus, 36

Kaikhosrav, 35

Kamleyses, 25

Karna, 15

Krishna, 47

Kyros, 24, 89

Kyros myth, versions of, 24, 32, 33

Kunti, 16

Lohengrin, 55, 58

Lunar myths, 5

Mandane, 25

Migration theories, 2

Moses, 13, 79

Mother and hero, 61

Myth and hysterical fancy, 92

Myth and infantile psyche, 9, 10

Myths and paranoid mechanisms, 75

Myth and race, 11

Myth and sex, 65

Myth, complications of, 83

Myth contents, 4, 6

Myth displacements, 76

Myth distribution, 4

Myth, evolution of, 8

Myth formation and child psyche, 63

Myth ground plan, 61

Myth interpretation, 5

Myth of hero, summary of, 67

Myth, psychological significance of, 90

Myth structure and psychoneuroses, 63

Myth, type of, 61

Mythological theories, 1, 3

Neurotic family romance, 65

Neurotics, 64

Nightmares, 7

Œdipus, 74

Œdipus myth, 6, 18

Old age and youth, 64

Opposites, 70

Oriant, 56

Paranoid delusions, 91

Paranoid mechanism in myths, 75

Parental authority, 63

Parental criticism, 64

Parents, fancied, 73

Parents, real, 73

Paris, 20

Perseus, 22

Persian myths, 37

Persian war, 32

Pharaoh, 80

Priamos, 20

Pritha, 16

Proca, 42

Projection, 75

Psychological significance of myth, 90

Psychoneuroses and myth structure, 63

Psychoneurotics, 63

Races and myths, 81

Real parents, 73

Reformer, 93

Remus, 40

Replacement of father, 67

Retaliation and revenge, 66

Revenge and retaliation, 66

Reversals, 72

Revolt of hero, 82

Revolutionary, 93

River legends, 46

Romulus, 40

Romulus, modifications of, 42

St. Gregory, 19

Sam, 21

Sargon myth, 12

Scëaf, 60

Scild Scefing, 60

Senechoros, 24

Sex and myth, 65

Siegfried, 93

Split personalities, 84

Summary interpretation, 79

Symbolic expression, 69

Telephos, 21

Thebes, 43

Theories of myths, 1, 3

Tristan, 38, 39

True bride, 40

Twin myths, 44

Types of reversal, 77

Typical myth, 61

Tyrant and father, 76

Water dreams, 71

Water in myth, 34

Wieland, 55

Wolfdietrich, 54

Youth and old age, 64

Zal, 21

Zetos and Amphion, 43

Zoroaster, 51