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Starting from the phantasies of the individual, psycho-analytic research soon began to investigate the way to the phantasies of mankind.
The first steps on this path were made by Rank, far ahead of all others, with his "Künstler". In this book, which recently appeared in a new edition, the turning to the general and historical is not anticipated merely in vague hints, but built up in methodical form a long time before the material of race psychology was used as a new basis. It is still on many points the best formulation of our knowledge.