 ""Komisch"" (strange, odd, comical), Rank said on his deathbed (Lieberman, 1985, p. 389).Rollo May, a pioneer of existential psychotherapy in the United States, was deeply influenced by Rank's post-Freudian lectures and writings and always considered Rank to be the most important precursor of existential therapy.Shortly before his death, Rollo May wrote the foreword to Robert Kramer's edited collection of Rank's American lectures.