Theodor Reik Quotes

Theodor Reik — American Psychologist born on May 12, 1888, died on December 31, 1969

Theodor Reik was 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... (wikipedia)

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

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.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.