Christopher Wintle, Sibling-Incest in the ‘Ring’
Christopher Wintle, Sibling-Incest in the ‘Ring’
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November 2024, Volume 18, Number 3, 40–55.
Incest as a topic in applied psychoanalysis is almost as old as psychoanalysis itself. Yet the application has changed even if the topic hasn’t. It starts with Otto Rank, who was born in Vienna in 1884, met Sigmund Freud in 1905, became secretary of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1906, and for the next twenty years assisted him, partly in editing Imago, a series devoted to psychoanalysis and the arts. Rank was brilliant and original, and from 1926 went his own way, living in Paris and New York until his death in 1939. In 1912, he published The Incest-Motif in Poetry and Legend, which he revised in 1926. The book includes a section on Wagner.