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Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings… — Sigmund Freud

Letter

Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

In the original German

Glück ist die nachträgliche Erfüllung eines prähistorischen Wunsches. Darum macht Reichtum so wenig glücklich; Geld ist kein Kinderwunsch gewesen.

Sigmund Freud
1898
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Happiness
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1898
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Sigmund Freud
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Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.
Original citation
Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

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