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.

Quote by Anna Freud

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How can one know anything at all about people?

How can one know anything at all about people?

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

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

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

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

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

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

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

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing...

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

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

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

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within....

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within....

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically...

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically...

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

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

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

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

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished,...

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished,...

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more...

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more...

I am glad that I do not have any children.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.