{"product_id":"art-and-artist-creative-urge-and-personality-development-9780393305746","title":"Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Ranks thought has implications for the deepest and broadest development of the social sciences . . . and of all Ranks books  Art and Artist is the most secure monument to his genius.\" Ernest Becker Along with Adler and Jung  Otto Rank was one of the intellectual giants in the inner circle around Sigmund Freud. Art and Artist  his major statement on the relationship of art to the individual and society  pursues in a broader cultural context Freuds ideas on art and neurosis and has had an important influence on many twentieth-century writers and thinkers  beginning with Henry Miller and Anais Nin.  Art and Artist explores the human urge to create in all its complex aspects  in terms not only of individual works of art but of religion  mythology  and social institutions as well. Based firmly on Ranks knowledge of psychology and psychoanalysis  it ranges widely through anthropology and cultural history  reaching beyond psychology to a broad understanding of human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495906697269,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393305740","price":26.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393305746.jpg?v=1780903166","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/art-and-artist-creative-urge-and-personality-development-9780393305746","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}