Top 29 Quotes & Sayings by Anna Freud

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian psychologist Anna Freud.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Anna Freud was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian-Jewish descent. 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 Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology.

Austrian - Psychologist | December 3, 1895 - October 9, 1982

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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!

Anna Freud

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

Anna Freud

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.

Anna Freud

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

Anna Freud

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

Anna Freud

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Anna Freud

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

Anna Freud

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

Anna Freud

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.

Anna Freud

I am glad that I do not have any children.

Anna Freud

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

Anna Freud

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

Anna Freud

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

Anna Freud

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.

Anna Freud

How can one know anything at all about people?

Anna Freud

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

Anna Freud

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

Anna Freud

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

Anna Freud

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Anna Freud

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

Anna Freud

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

Anna Freud

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