`titrebTheodor Reik (1888-1969): about the dread`/titrebTheodor Reik is a psychoanalyst from Vienna. He was Sigmund Freud’s faithful disciple and his name is associated with two papers The Couvade and Listening with The Ear respectively published in 1914 and 1948, and with the legal proceedings against the individuals who were not physician but nevertheless practiced psychoanalysis. Freud’s position was supportive of Reik in 1926. During the First World War, Reik was mobilized and had to face up to the situation with an unbearable helplessness. Reik contributed to a paper of Freud, published in 1919, The Uncanny. This term refers to a part of which that is horrifying. Some years later, in a text called The Dread written in 1924 and published in 1929, Reik makes a link between the aspects of traumatic neurosis, which was disseminated in the written papers of Freud, and suggests his own analysis. Freud recognized the pertinence of that paper. In 1935, a book is published in which Reik speaks about the dread when confronting thoughts, from the point of view of the psychoanalyst. The conceptualization of the theme of dread is presented in this article, in the work of Reik.