Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
Doubt is the brother of shame.
Personality, too, is destiny.
The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.