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Norton Library (Paperback): Truth and Reality (Paperback)

Professor Otto Rank; Jessie Taft
W. W. Norton & Company
9780393008999
0-393-00899-1

Anticipating one of the central findings of post-Freudian psychiatry, he argues that "truth" is irrelevant to the work of therapy. He contrasts the negative externalization of will, which leads to denial.

and guilt, with the creative power of will, tracing this conflict in both the individual and the history of human society.