Otto Rank Quotes

The Correct Didactic Analysis Is One That Does Not In The Least Differ From The Curative Treatment. How, Indeed, Shall The Future Analyst Learn The Technique If He Does Not Experience It Just Exactly As He Is To Apply It Later?

Thou Shalt Not Give Birth Reluctantly.

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife, For There Are Plenty Of Others.

For The Whole Consequence Of Evolution From Blind Impulse Through Conscious Will To Self Conscious Knowledge, Seems Still Somehow To Correspond To A Continued Result Of Births, Rebirths And New Births, Which Reach From The Birth Of The Child From The Mother, Beyond The Birth Of The Individual From The Mass, To The Birth Of The Creative Work From The Individual And Finally To The Birth Of Knowledge From The Work.

Man Works Primarily For His Own Self-respect And Not For Others Or For Profit. . . The Person Who Is Working For The Sake Of His Own Satisfaction, The Money He Gets In Return Serves Merely As Fuel, That Is, As A Symbol Of Reward And Recognition, In The Last Analysis, Of Acceptance By Ones Fellowmen.

Art Is Life's Dream Interpretation.

There Is Already Too Much Truth In The World - An Overproduction Which Apparently Cannot Be Consumed!

The New Meaning Of Soul Is Creativity And Mysticism. These Will Become The Foundation Of The New Psychological Type And With Him Or Her Will Come The New Civilization.

Some Refuse The Loan Of Life To Avoid The Debt Of Death.

For The Only Therapy Is Life. The Patient Must Learn To Live, To Live With His Split, His Conflict, His Ambivalence, Which No Therapy Can Take Away, For If It Could, It Would Take With It The Actual Spring Of Life.