As quoted by diarist and eroticist #AnaïsNin published in the 'Journal of the #OttoRank Association' in 1973. The text was based on a talk delivered by Nin during an Association meeting in October 1972. Rank was her therapist and ultimately her lover.

As quoted by diarist and eroticist #AnaïsNin published in the 'Journal of the #OttoRank Association' in 1973. The text was based on a talk delivered by Nin during an Association meeting in October 1972. Rank was her therapist and ultimately her lover.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

- #OttoRank

Otto Rank’s Spiritual Vision, continued - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox Why did I end my last DM calling Otto Rank a “spiritual giant” of the 20th century? One reason is this. During my training as a Dominican, around 1965, I told my Dominican superiors that “my generatio...

Instead of #originalsin, #OttoRank wrote of “original wound.” Instead of God & me theology, he wrote of Marx's appeal of hope for the hopeless; & how women must set aside Freud's “masc. ideology” & create their own psychology; & creativity was the key to our neuroses & our salvation. bit.ly/3LolcQV

A Great Book from 2025 on a Great Spiritual Teacher—Otto Rank - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox With one year ending and another dawning, it is customary to reflect on the outgoing year. One sees articles, for example, on “the best movies of 2025 nobody knows of.” In today’s and Monday’s DM, I w...

#OttoRank: "Man is born beyond #psychology and he dies beyond it, but he can live beyond it only through vital experience of his own–in religious terms, through revelation, conversion, or rebirth." bit.ly/3NqSPCe

Thought for the Day. #LyonStrategic #OttoRank

For the only #therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.

- #OttoRank

Life in itself is a mere succession of separations.

- #OttoRank

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

- #OttoRank

Tonight! Don’t miss Vanessa’s lecture on ”Der Doppelgänger, the Artist & Creative Will”:

thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/der-do...

#viktorwynd #thelasttuesdaysociety #ottorank #occulture #vanessasinclair @drsinclair.bsky.social

Love, Mysticism, Anger: Healing  of Democracy via the Irrational? - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox Yesterday we considered Otto Rank’s medicine for an ailing democracy.  Rank was living at a time like ours, the rise of fascism and the dangerous irrationality of culture and politics in the late 1930...

#OttoRank: “the epitome of the irrational is the marvel of creation itself.” #RabbiHeschel reminds us “awe is the beginning of wisdom.” The #rational gives us #knowledge, and that is important; but wonder leads to #wisdom. bit.ly/3YZJ7Jw

#Davidlynch #twinpeaks #losthighway #Doppelgänger #OttoRank #SigmundFreud #unheimlich #uncanny #Hegel #Kant #kylemaclachlan #dalecooper #lauradern #repression #Verdrängung #Spaltung #division #jacqueslacan #barredsubject #gespaltenesSubjekt #psychoanalysis #philosophie #philosophy #Superposition