Lay analyst Theodor Reik was born on 5/12/1888, in Vienna, & died on 12/31/69, in New York. He was the 3rd child of four born to the cultured, lower-middle-class Jewish family of Max & Caroline Reik. Reik's father was a low-salaried government clerk who died when Theodor was 18. Freud became a father figure for the rest of his life. He attended public schools in Vienna & entered the University of Vienna, aged 18, where he studied psychology, French & German literature. He received a PhD in 1912, writing the 1st psychoanalytic dissertation, on Flaubert's The Temptation of St Anthony. He met Freud in 1910, and two years later became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. In 1914-15 he was in analysis with Karl Abraham in Berlin &, wit
