The Pain of Being Someone — Otto Rank and The Trauma of Birth

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What if your pain didn’t begin with heartbreak, or trauma, or failure —
but with the very act of being born?
In this video, we explore the radical and unsettling ideas of Otto Rank, the psychoanalyst who broke away from Freud to propose that the first trauma is birth itself — and everything after is a reenactment of that primal loss.
Through philosophy, psychology, and raw human experience, we follow the arc of existence: from rupture, to ego, to freedom, to love, and finally to the only redemption available — creation.
Featuring insights from:
Otto Rank – The Trauma of Birth (1924)


Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)


Jean-Paul Sartre – Being and Nothingness (1943)


Kierkegaard – The Concept of Anxiety (1844)


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