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Quotes by Psychoanalyst
"A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical."
"The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not."
"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."
"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
"Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future."
"Conflict is the beginning of consciousness."
"If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness."
"Disease is a vital expression of the human organism."
"One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps."
"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth."
"The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress."
"Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work."
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