idée fixe

 

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idée fixe

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• idee fixe

Borrowed from French idée fixe (literally “fixed idea”).

• IPA^(key): /iː.deɪ ˈfiːks/ (or as French IPA^(key): /i.deɪ fiks/)

idée fixe (plural idées fixes)

1. (psychology) An idea dominating the mind and maintained despite evidence to the contrary; (loosely), an obsession.
   • 1904 April 30, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC, page 212:

     “There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the ‘idée fixe,’ which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an ‘idée fixe’ and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage.”

   • 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 13, page 171, ¶ 13:

     [“]A foreign policy of domination through spiritual means is [Jorane Sutt’s] idée fixe, but it’s my notion that his ultimate aims aren’t spiritual.[”]

   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 182:

     The sage's solitary fantisizings about the heavens have turned monstrous, his yearnings for knowledge have swollen into idées fixes

   • 2009, Gary Clark, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 9:

     His conclusion though is illuminating, and established a theme that was to concern him for the next forty years of his life, becoming the idée fixe of works such as The Ghost in the Machine, The Act of Creation and the Roots of Coincidence.

2. A recurring musical theme; a leitmotif.
   • 1922, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, volume 4, page 793:

     a definite musical figure, called the 'idée fixe,' unifying the work throughout by its constant reappearance in various aspects and surroundings

 

French Wikipedia has an article on:

idée fixe

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• IPA^(key): /i.de fiks/

idée fixe f (plural idées fixes)

1. (psychology) idée fixe

   Synonym: marotte

• → English: idée fixe
• → English: fixed idea (calque)
• → Swedish: fix idé (calque)
• → Russian: идефикс (idefiks)
• → Russian: идея фикс (ideja fiks) (partial calque)

• fixette

Unadapted borrowing from French idée fixe (“idée fixe, obsession”, literally “fixed idea”).

idée fixe

1. (psychiatry, psychology) idée fixe, obsession

   Synonym: obsesi

• “idée fixe” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.