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Otto Rank



Rank, Otto (1884–1939), Austrian psychoanalyst and pupil of Sigmund Freud, best known for his suggestion that the trauma of birth is the basis of later anxiety neurosis and for applying psychoanalysis to artistic creativity.

See also: Psychoanalysis.

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