In psychology, an idée fixe (pronounced [ide fiks] ; French for 'fixed idea') is a preoccupation of mind believed to be firmly resistant to any attempt to modify it, a fixation. == Background == According to intellectual historian Jan E. Goldstein, the initial introduction of idée fixe as a medical term occurred around 1812 in connection with monomania.
In psychology, an idée fixe (pronounced [ide fiks] ; French for 'fixed idea') is a preoccupation of mind believed to be firmly resistant to any attempt to modify it, a fixation. == Background == According to intellectual historian Jan E. Goldstein, the initial introduction of idée fixe as a medical term occurred around 1812 in connection with monomania.
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