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Quotation by Selma H. Fraiberg
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The Magic Years (1959)
The two year old...loves, deeply, tenderly, extravagantly and he holds the love of his parents more dearly than anything in the world.... He wants to be good in order to earn their love and approval; he wants to be good so that he can love himself. (This is what we mean, later, by self-esteem.)
Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century), U.S. child psychoanalyst. The Magic Years, ch. 4 (1959).
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