Freud a dit "Ceux qui manquent de sexe parlent de sexe... et nos dirigeants parlent de moralité"

🤔 Probably apocryphal. We can't find any trace of this quote, but as soon as it mentions sexuality, it's bound to be Freud, right? 😊 There is a website that lists all the famous quotes in German by well-known people such as Freud, and we can't find anything similar in their search engine: https://cvc.li/jbjyo We dug deeper and finally found an exchange of letters between Einstein and Freud from 1932, which does indeed discuss leaders, sex and ‘morality’. It is the correspondence published under the title "Warum Krieg? ‘ (Why War?) https://cvc.li/TwrYy In the original language: https://cvc.li/Ntqhr Among the notable passages, Freud writes: - ’We admit that human instincts can be reduced to two categories: those that want to preserve and unite; we call these sexual, (...) and those that seek to destroy and kill (...) - But let us not rush too quickly to the notions of good and evil.‘ - ’How is it that this minority can enslave the great mass of the people, who derive nothing from war but suffering and impoverishment, to its appetites?"