Theodor Reik was central to the struggle for the legitimization of nonmedical or lay analysis both in Europe and the United States. This paper deals with the book Freud wrote in defense of Reik, The Question of Lay Analysis, and places it within its hi…

Theodore Reik (1888-1969) is important and this appreciative symposium will tell why. His life and work are truly relevant to the history of the Division of Psychoanalysis. This appreciative symposium of seven papers by six distinguished authors pays t…

Although Theodor Reik was a celebrated psychoanalyst during the 1950s and 1960s, his work has not resulted in the development of a specific psychoanalytic tradition, and his name has gradually disappeared from Western cultural memory. Following the mod…

This article explores Heidegger’s investigative method–which the author sees as a unique blending of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and contextualism–and its relationship to its subject matter, the meaning of Being. The unity of Heidegger’s investigati…

We examine the story of the martyrdom of a mother and her seven sons from Second Maccabees 7:1-42, a Greek text from the first century BCE. The story recounts the sons’ refusal to eat pork, their torture at the hands of the king, the king’s attempts to…