Sigmund Freud about the Irish

Factual Questions
1

I saw Scorsese’s The Departed today and in it is the following quote of Freud speaking about the Irish

My google-fu is weak it seems. I can only find people quoting the thing but no context or further info is given.

Anybody got the Dope on this? Is it even real?

2

According to this:

No idea why or how, but it might limit your search somewhat.

Speculatively I would attribute his attitude to contemporaneous British-inspired propaganda (and it’s not like he is likely to have experienced much of a decent sample on which to base his opinion - not that such considerations ever hampered the rest of his theorizing), but who knows?

3

[QUOTE=jjimm]
No idea why or how
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I don’t see why it’s all that surprising. He only died in 1939, so we’d still be within (for example) a 70-year copyright awarded to his estate.

4

I found this which found a reference in the introduction to a book of Irish short stories - intro written by Anthony Burgess.

Part of the problem in searching may be that the original work the quote came from wasn’t written in English.

5

[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
I don’t see why it’s all that surprising. He only died in 1939, so we’d still be within (for example) a 70-year copyright awarded to his estate.
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UK copyright. But in the U.S., all of his works published before 1923 are now in the public domain.

6

Well a number of websites credit him with saying that (1 2 3 ). Take it for what it’s worth.

7

Who needs psychoanalysis when you’ve got Guinness?