Otto Rank Quotes

#1. In the psychical sphere there are no facts, but only interpretations of them.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

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#5. It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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?

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#8. Art is life's dream interpretation.

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#9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

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#10. Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

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#11. There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!

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#12. Every human being is ... equally unfree, that is, we ... create out of freedom, a prison ...

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