Otto Rank famous quotes

03-23-2025

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.
-- Otto Rank

#Debt #Loan #Refuse
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.
-- Otto Rank

#Future #Creativity #Civilization
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.
-- Otto Rank

#Spring #Splits #Patient
There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!
-- Otto Rank

#World #Too Much
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
-- Otto Rank

#Wife #Neighbor #Plenty
Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
-- Otto Rank

#Giving #Birth
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?
-- Otto Rank

#Doe #Analysis #Technique
Art is life's dream interpretation.
-- Otto Rank

#Dream #Art #Interpretation
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.
-- Otto Rank

#Acceptance #Men #Self
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.
-- Otto Rank

#Mother #Children #Self

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