The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Interpretation of Mythology (Translated) (English Edition)

-English Translation by professional psychologists familiar with the Freudian theories used in the text.

Written by Otto Rank, an Austrian psychologist who was a member of Sigmund Freud's inner circle, this was the seminal work applying the psychoanalytic method to mythology and literature. The later work of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell's famous Hero with a Thousand Faces owe much to Rank's work.

It includes not only familiar Classical and Teutonic mythologies, but legends from India as well as analysis of Judeo-Christian figures as myth.