NEW YORK

THE JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE
PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914

NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE MONOGRAPH SERIES

Edited by
Drs. SMITH ELY JELLIFFE and WM. A. WHITE
Numbers Issued

1. Outlines of Psychiatry. (4th Edition) $3.00.By Dr. William A. White.
2. Studies in Paranoia.By Drs. N. Gierlich and M. Friedman.
3. The Psychology of Dementia Praecox. (Out of Print.)By Dr. C. G Jung.
4. Selected Papers on Hysteria and other Psychoneuroses.(2d Edition.) $2.50. By Prof. Sigmund Freud.
5. The Wassermann Serum Diagnosis in Psychiatry. $2.00.By Dr. Felix Plaut.
6. Epidemic Poliomyelitis. New York, 1907. (Out of Print.)
7. Three Contributions to Sexual Theory. $2.00.By Prof. Sigmund Freud.
8. Mental Mechanisms. $2.00.By Dr. Wm. A. White.
9. Studies in Psychiatry. $2.00.New York Psychiatrical Society.
10. Handbook of Mental Examination Methods. $2.00.By Shepherd Ivory Franz.
11. The Theory of Schizophrenic Negativism. $0.60.By Professor E. Bleuler.
12. Cerebellar Functions. $3.00.By Dr. André-Thomas.
13. History of Prison Psychoses. $1.25.By Drs. P. Nitsche and K. Wilmanns.
14. General Paresis. $3.00.By Prof. E. Kraepelin.
15. Dreams and Myths. $1.00.By Dr. Karl Abraham.
16. Poliomyelitis. $3.00.Dr. I. Wickmann.
17. Freud’s Theories of the Neuroses. $2.00.Dr. E. Hitschmann.
18. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero. $1.00.Dr. Otto Rank.

Copyright, 1914, by
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Publishing Company, New York
Press of
The New Era Printing Company
Lancaster, Pa.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

[Introduction]1
[Sargon]12
[Moses]13
[Karna]15
[Œdipus]18
[Paris]20
[Telephos]21
[Perseus]22
[Gilgamos]23
[Kyros]24
[Tristan]38
[Romulus]40
[Hercules]44
[Jesus]47
[Siegfried]53
[Lohengrin]55
[Index]95

THE MYTH OF THE BIRTH OF THE HERO

[A Psychological Interpretation of Mythology]