Otto Rank Professions : Psychoanalyst Born : April 22, 1884 Died : October 31, 1939 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by Otto Rank Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death. Otto Rank debt life 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. Otto Rank splits patient spring 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 There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed! Otto Rank consumed too-much world 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 self men 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 self mother children Art is life's dream interpretation. Otto Rank interpretation dream art Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly. Otto Rank birth giving Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. Otto Rank coveting family wife 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 analysis technique doe Similar Authors Allen Wheelis psychoanalyst Donald Woods Winnicott psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch psychoanalyst Franz Alexander psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques psychoanalyst All Authors
