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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
Anna Freud
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Anna Freud
Age: 86 †
Born: 1895
Born: December 3
Died: 1982
Died: October 9
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Vienna
Austria
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