the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.