If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.