Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

The remark suggests a daughter’s awareness of being measured against her father’s professional experience and expectations. “Papa” (Sigmund Freud) is imagined as wanting Anna to embody an ideal of rationality and clarity—traits he may have found less consistently in the female patients he treated in psychoanalysis. The line can be read as both affectionate and uneasy: it conveys pride in being singled out as intellectually “lucid,” while also hinting at the gendered assumptions embedded in early psychoanalytic culture and in Freud’s clinical encounters. It also points to the psychological pressure of being the analyst’s child—expected to be exemplary, self-controlled, and less “symptomatic” than those who come to analysis.