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Anna Freud (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst. 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 Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology.

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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.

People, Opinion, Affection, Good, Contact, Primitive

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

Longing, Ifs, Astonished, Life, Call

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.

Deals, Oneself, Right, Things, Trying, Way

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

Future, Past, Trapped, Waiting, Waits

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

Mother, War, Loss

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

Circles, Want, Matter, Small, Circle, Matters

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.

Mother, Children, Feelings, Parental, Elsewhere

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

Inspirational, Positive, Strength, Looking, Time

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

Sex, Sexuality

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

Filled, Space, Tree, Yesterday

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

Life, Ocean, Sailor, Tiny

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

Everything, Ifs, Looks, Stupid, Wrong

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

Joy, Earth, Brought, Promised

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

Firsts, Shock, Madhouses, Visit, Madhouse

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

Children, Getting Lost, Blame, Usually, Lost

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

Emphasizes, Fixed, Papa, Unexplained, Writers

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

Looks, Consideration, Practicals, Follow, Maybe, Things

How can one know anything at all about people?

People, Knows, Know

It is there all the time.

Time

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

Educational, Inspirational, Kind, Known, Minds, Witty

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