The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
Theodor ReikHe [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
Theodor ReikRomance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth
Theodor Reik