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Portrait of Anna Freud

Anna Freud

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Anna Freud was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian Jewish descent. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father and contributed to the field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and Melanie Klein, she may b

Quotes by Anna Freud

I am glad that I do not have any children.

Children

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It is there all the time.

Funny

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How can one know anything at all about people?

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My different personalities leave me in peace now.

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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

Shock

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I am no longer afraid to say anything.

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We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

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If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Creativity

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The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Horror

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Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.

Beautiful thing

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Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

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Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are.

Inspirational

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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Past

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Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Beautiful

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Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate…

Acting

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Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

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It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children…

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Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try…

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The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?

Consideration

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Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am…

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How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is…

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Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

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Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

Discontent

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If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Life

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We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

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In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Dream

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Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It was there all the time

Confidence

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“There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt…

Adolescent

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What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people…

Affection

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Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and…

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“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.”

Confidence

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