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Quotation from Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
“every time we go to sleep we throw aside our hard won morality like a garment in order to put it on again in the morning”
Reflections on War and Death, Part I, 'The Disappointments of War', trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918)
Freud uses sleep and dreams as the everyday example of regression, the return of earlier mental states, before applying the idea to whole nations at war.
Citation: "every time we go to sleep we throw aside our hard won morality like a garment in order to put it on again in the morning" — 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-q4)
