We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

Theodor Reik (12 May 1888 in Wien — 31 December 1969 in New York City) was a prominent psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud's first students in Vienna Austria. In 1944 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Rejected from the dominant community of medical psychoanalysts in the United States because he did not possess an M.