Anna Freud quotes

Anna Freud was an Austrian psychologist and pioneer in the field of child psychoanalysis. Her work significantly advanced the understanding of child development and defense mechanisms. She is remembered as a key figure who shaped modern psychoanalytic theory and practice. Here are 27 of her quotes:

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. (Anna Freud)
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. View quote
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We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. View quote
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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 and ugliness? View quote
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. View quote
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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. View quote
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We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. View quote
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In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them. View quote
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Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth? View quote
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Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. View quote
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Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost. (Anna Freud)
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be. View quote
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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 with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me. View quote
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Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 and be all right oneself. View quote
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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 feel lost. View quote
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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 standing up straighter! View quote
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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 unimaginable to me. View quote
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I am no longer afraid to say anything. View quote
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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock. (Anna Freud)
How can one know anything at all about people? View quote
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I am glad that I do not have any children. View quote
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My different personalities leave me in peace now. View quote
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Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. View quote
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Anna Freud

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Occupation: Austrian Psychologist
Born: December 3, 1895
Died: October 9, 1982
Quotes count: 27

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