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The double : a psychoanalytic study / Otto Rank ; translated and edited, with an introduction by Harry Tucker, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rank, Otto, 1884-1939.
- Standardized Title:
- Doppelgänger. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiple personality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (111 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1971.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Alive, fresh, and stimulating, the theme of The Double comprises the issues of identity, narcissism, and the fear of death--actually the core of human existence. Rank's book is primarily a study of the double as it appeared in striking examples in German, French, Russian, English, and American literature from Goethe to Oscar Wilde.
- Contents:
- Cover; Preface; Contents; Introduction; I: The Statement of the Problem; II: Examples of the Double in Literature; III: Biography as Background to Literature; IV: The Double in Anthropology; V: Narcissism and the Double; Index
- Notes:
- Translation of Der Doppelgänger.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890876041
- 9781469610214
- 1469610213
- OCLC:
- 823719603
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