# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-rank
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:46:51.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-rank"
name: "Otto Rank"
slug: "otto-rank"
description: "Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and philosopher. Born in Vienna, he became one of Sigmund Freud's closest collaborators, served as secretary of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, and edited leading psychoanalytic journals while publishing studies of myth and creativity. His book The Trauma of Birth (1924) proposed that the anxiety of birth precedes the Oedipus complex, coined the term \"pre-Oedipal,\" and triggered a decisive break with Freud's developmental theory. Rank established psychotherapy practices in Paris and New York, where he promoted relationship-based treatment that emphasized emotional presence in the analytic encounter. He influenced existential and humanistic therapy, social work, and action learning, and his ideas on creativity and the double continue to inform psychological and cultural criticism."
tagline: "Austrian psychoanalyst (1884–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Otto_Rank_obituary_photo.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AT"
birthDate: "1884-04-22"
deathDate: "1939-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump