"The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy."

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A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.

— Sigmund Freud