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Of Love and Lust by Theodor Reik (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Jul 16th, 2023. Artwork published in
circa 1968
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, undated
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, undated

On Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions is a book by Vienna-born psychoanalyst Theodor Reik (1888–1969), who trained as one of Freud’s first students.

From the back cover:

On Love and Lust brings together Theodor Reik’s major writings about the hidden nature of masculinity and femininity in normal and abnormal sexuality, in romantic love, in marriage, in parenthood, in bachelorhood and spinsterhood. The inclusion of important material from his long-out-of-print A Psychologist Looks at Love makes this one of the most valuable of his writings.

Wikipedia adds:

Reik presented a forceful criticism of traditional Freudian theory in A Psychologist Looks at Love (1944). Freud had believed that love is always based on some form of sexual desire. Reik argued, to the contrary, that love and lust are distinct motivational forces.

The book was first published in 1941. The edition shown here was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in at least two versions, including one in their Noonday imprint from 1968 (fifth printing), with a red-and-yellow jacket design featuring large female (♀︎) and male (♂) signs. The display typeface is Hermann Zapf’s Michelangelo, an all-caps titling companion to his Palatino family, first cast in 1950. The smaller text on the back of the jacket is set in Palatino in roman and italic.

Michelangelo is distinguished by a lighter weight, a higher waistline, and more varied proportions – for example, a wider O, but a narrower E. The forms for R and K in the author’s name are alternates with a longer exit stroke. Michelangelo was digitized by Berthold. Linotype’s Palatino nova Titling is a revision made by Zapf together with Akira Kobayashi in 2005.

Noonday Press, fifth printing, 1968
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Noonday Press, fifth printing, 1968

Noonday Press, fifth printing, 1968
Source: archive.org License: All Rights Reserved.

Noonday Press, fifth printing, 1968

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