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Delusions, psychosis, idées fixes, persecution complex, whatever: To some extent it has always been there.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

The story is told clearly enough – no small achievement in this opera – and the production has no distracting idées fixes, though it does keep one subversive surprise until just before the final curtain.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2013

“Lack of facts,” Mr. Englund observes, “has been padded out with guesses, suppositions, hopes, fears, idées fixes, conspiracy theories, dreams, nightmares and rumors.”

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2011

Les idées préconçues, soumises au contrôle sévère de l'expérimentation, sont la flamme vivante des sciences d'observation; les idées fixes en sont le danger.—Pasteur, in Histoire d'un Savant, 284.

From A Lecture on the Study of History by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

Raymond et Janet, Névroses et idées fixes, 1898.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen