Otto Rank

According to Ferenczi "… One learned from [Freud] and from his kind of technique various things that made one’s life and work more comfortable: the calm unemotional reserve; the unruffled assurance that one knows better; and the theories the seeking and finding of the causes of failure in the patient instead of partly in ourselves … and finally the pessimistic view shared only with a few that neurotics are a rabble [Gesindel] good only to support us financially and to allow us to learn from their cases: psychoanalysis as a therapy may be worthless" (Ferenczi 1995 pp. xvi). Their “greatness consists precisely in this reaching out beyond themselves beyond the ideology which they have themselves fostered” according to Art and Artist (Rank 1932/1989 p.

For the remaining 14 years of his life Rank had a successful career as a lecturer writer and therapist in France and the U. S.