

- Psychoanalysis, Birth, Childbirth, Psychological aspects
First published in 1924, Otto Rank's *The Trauma of Birth* took as its starting point a note that Freud added to his The Interpretation of Dreams : "Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety".
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Earnest, grave, spare and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Otto Rank
- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, Harcourt, Brace, Kegan Paul
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780486279749
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