Helene Deutsch Quotes

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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''.'

Helene Deutsch

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Helene Deutsch

The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

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It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

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Only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

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All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

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That person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

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All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

Helene Deutsch

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

Helene Deutsch

Helene Deutsch

Helene Deutsch

Born: October 9, 1884

Died: March 29, 1982 (aged 97)

Bio: Helene Deutsch was a Polish American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She was the first psychoanalyst to specialize in women.

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