#or

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

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

— Anna Freud

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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. ↗

— Anna Freud

#always #am #contact #good #good opinion

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#autobiographical #myself #purely #surroundings #work

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#becomes #ironically #longer #look #more

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#him #his #needs #obsession #painter

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#am #art #doing #end #i

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together. ↗

— James Stockdale

#everybody #experiences #had #highs #life

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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