Anna Freud

Psychologist

1895-12-03 – 1982-10-09

Anna Freud was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst and a pioneering founder of child psychoanalysis. She expanded psychoanalytic theory and helped establish major child therapy institutions in London.

Quotes by Anna Freud

Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child
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Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child
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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!
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
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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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Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
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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.
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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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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.
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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
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Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
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