This author also theorized the artist as achieving the highest degree of self-consciousness with his division of people into adapted, productive, and neurotic types and theorized the human desire to minimize the conflicting "fear of death" and "fear of life".  
Rollo May wrote about this man's influence on existential psychotherapy in his introduction to this man's collected lectures. He also collaborated with Sandor Ferenczi on The Development of Psychoanalysis, and in another work, this author wrote about the role of questions in allowing people to step outside their social framework, which he explored in (*) Art and Artist. In one work, this man analyzed the childhood imagination, as well as various tales involving infants being floated down a river to die, being raised by animals or humble foster parents, and eventually attaining overdue honor.  This author also theorized the artist as achieving the highest degree of self-consciousness with his division of people into adapted, productive, and neurotic types and theorized the human desire to minimize the conflicting "fear of death" and "fear of life".  For ten points , name this author of The Myth of the Birth of the Hero and The Trauma of Birth.
Rollo May wrote about this man's influence on existential psychotherapy in his introduction to this man's collected lectures.
{Otto Rank}