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“You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.”
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“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
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“Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.”
― Playing and Reality
― Playing and Reality
“for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."
Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(”
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Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(”
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“1)A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
2)Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
3)Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
4)The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
5)Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
6)Science does not permit exceptions.”
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2)Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
3)Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
4)The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
5)Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
6)Science does not permit exceptions.”
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