Children Quote by Stephen A. Mitchell

Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood.

— Anne Applebaum

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of…

— Herbert Read

Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any…

— Sandra Scarr

“A great psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich , was asked once—because he was studying children, their problems—he was asked, 'What is the most basic problem with…

— Osho

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” Sigmund Freud thefathersday.com”

— Vinay Chouhan

“She contradicted the Freudians and development psychologists by suggesting that we modify our behaviour depending on the environment we are in. Her conclusion: children…

— Mikael Krogerus

“Freud focused on the puzzling development of conscience. He reasoned that the child begins life with a sense that all are present to serve…

— Bandy X Lee

“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients were revealing…

— Lundy Bancroft

“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients were revealing…

— Lundy Bancroft

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex.…

— Arnaud Desplechin

“Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst in many…

— Stephen A. Mitchell