Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Anna Freud
Born: December 3, 1895
Died: October 9, 1982 (aged 86)
Bio: Anna Freud was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst. She was the 6th and last child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father and contributed to the field of psychoanalysis.
Known for:
- Ego and the mechanisms of defence (1937)
- The Harvard lectures
- War and children (1943)
- Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973)
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