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 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.
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.
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.
good-love romantic-love neurosis
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
love dream reality
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
love wise men
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
best-love order persons
In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.
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.
goal detours approach
It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.
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