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
creativity artist wrath
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
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.
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.
love dream reality
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
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The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
relationship wise men
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men
said
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
love wise men
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
marriage men civilization
In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.