 Freud announced to the inner circle, full of jealous rivals, that Rank was "my heir" (Lieberman and Kramer, 2012, p. 225).In 1924, Rank published "Das Trauma der Geburt" (translated into English as "The Trauma of Birth" in 1929), exploring how art, myth, religion, philosophy and therapy were illuminated by separation anxiety in the "phase before the development of the Oedipus complex" (p. 216).But there was no such phase in Freud's theories.