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Quotation from Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
“In reality they have not sunk as deeply as we feared because they never really rose as high as we had believed”
Reflections on War and Death, Part I, 'The Disappointments of War', trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918)
The consolation Freud offers the disillusioned: wartime brutality reveals how much prewar morality was conformity rather than inward change.
Citation: "In reality they have not sunk as deeply as we feared because they never really rose as high as we had believed" — Sigmund Freud, Reflections on War and Death, Part I, 'The Disappointments of War', trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918). (id freud-reflections-on-war-and-death-q3)
