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What (who) is idée - definition
idee fixe
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Idee Fixe; Idée fixe (disambiguation); Idee fixe; Idée Fixe
[?i:de?'fi:ks]
¦ noun (plural idees fixes pronunciation same) an obsession.
Origin
Fr., lit. 'fixed idea'.
Il Travaso delle idee
DEFUNCT ITALIAN WEEKLY SATIRICAL MAGAZINE (1900–1966)
Il Travaso delle idee, mostly known as Il Travaso, (Italian: The Decanter of Ideas) was a satirical magazine which was in circulation between 1900 and 1966 with an interruption in the period 1944–1946. Its subtitle was Organo ufficiale delle persone intelligenti (Italian: Official Organ of Intelligent People).
Idée reçue
An idée reçue (pronounced ), plural idées reçues, a French phrase literally meaning a received (accepted) idea, is a generally held opinion or concept. This term was used by Gustave Flaubert in his work Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues to refer to clichés and platitudes, most of which are as insipid as they are banal.
Examples of use of idée
1. Hence, "soap opera". At the period he was writing Bleak House, sanitary reform – soap for the nation – was an obsession with Dickens – his idée fixe, his hobbyhorse, his mania, one of the few topics on which he could be boring.
2. Here at the Diary, we had always believed that if there was one spot on this benighted isle that defined what Charles de Gaulle would surely have called une certaine idée de l‘Angleterre, one community that exemplified the very notion of British gentility, one town that, above all others, would resist this nation‘s headlong rush towards vulgarity, binge drinking and over–skimpy underwear, it was Royal Tunbridge Wells.
3. By using torture, by the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, by employing "extraordinary renditions" of suspects to countries where they could be tortured, by insisting on going it almost alone in Iraq, by telling the international community to shove it, by declaring a war for an idée fixe –– this fierce obsession with Hussein goes back a long way –– the United States has made itself reviled in much of the world.