“The original restrictive meaning of sexual aberration which derives satisfaction from a passive relation to the partner has been retained. Masochism, however, has come to mean also a particular attitude toward life or a definite type of social behavior: of… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
“It was strange to find that love does not spring from abundance and richness of the ego, but is a way out of inner… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
“The original restrictive meaning of sexual aberration which derives satisfaction from a passive relation to the partner has been retained. Masochism, however, has come… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement.… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
“In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.” — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
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