Occupation: Psychoanalyst Birth: April 7, 1896 Death: January 28, 1971
There is for many a poverty of play..
It's a poor thing to be sane!.
What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has confidence in ….
It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the la….
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face..
Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. ….
It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative..
The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to inven….
The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the mother is really loo….
However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they who graduall….
I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smoot….
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul..
If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act.... Only too easily they feel incompetent. If t….
Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you..
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in be….
I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no….
There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone..
Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation..
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide..
The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process..
Play like dreams serves the function of self realization..