8 Quotes & Sayings By Anna Freud

Anna Freud was a daughter of Sigmund Freud and a granddaughter of his famous father, Jacob. She was born in Vienna on May 6, 1896, and died there on July 14, 1982. Her first formal education was at a private girls' school, where she learned French and German. In 1913 she entered the University of Vienna to study medicine, but after three years she had to give up her studies because of the First World War Read more

In 1917 she married Dr. Ernst Freud, who was a physician in Vienna. When her father died, Anna Freud became the principal of the family's summer home at Heidelberg, where he had lived for many years.

She received an honorary degree in 1957 from the University of Bern for "her work in psychiatry."

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Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child . Anna Freud
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud
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We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. Anna Freud
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud
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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
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My different personalities leave me in peace now. Anna Freud