Otto Rank quotes

Otto Rank was an Austrian psychologist and psychoanalyst, renowned for his work on the will and the role of creativity in the human psyche. As one of Sigmund Freud's closest collaborators, his theories diverged from orthodox psychoanalysis by emphasizing individual agency and birth trauma. He contributed significantly to existential and humanistic psychology. Here are 8 of his 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?

Otto Rank

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

Art is life's dream interpretation.

Otto Rank

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

Otto Rank

The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.

Otto Rank

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

Otto Rank

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

Otto Rank