In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.
Psychologists
Anna Freud
Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895-1982), the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, who became a co-founder of child psychoanalysis and ego psychology. Her landmark Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936) systematised the defences—repression, projection, sublimation, identification with the aggressor—and became foundational to American ego psychology. After fleeing Vienna with her father in 1938, she established the Hampstead War Nursery (1941) for children dislocated by the Blitz and the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic (1952, now the Anna Freud Centre). Her Controversial Discussions with Melanie Klein split the British Psychoanalytical Society, while her devotion to defending her father's legacy slowed theoretical innovation in her own work.
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We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
The ego, driven by the id, confined by the super-ego, repulsed by reality, struggles to master its economic task of bringing about harmony among the forces and influences working in and upon it.
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