Theodor Reik
Theodor Reik
Theodor Reikwas a prominent psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud's first students in Vienna, Austria, and was a pioneer of lay analysis in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth12 May 1888
CountryUnited States of America
love people different
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
considered men might women
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
love healing goal
He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
goal detours approach
It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.
love men want
Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.
love sex needs
There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.
selfish men thinking
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.
women looks
Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.
race dear-god dear-life
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.
children romance parent
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth
loneliness admiring persons
No person loving or admiring himself is alone.
good-love romantic-love neurosis
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
memories live-concerts doors
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.
thinking feels consolation
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.