Freud: Psychoanalysis doesn't work on the Irish

[snopes]

Comment: I've found versions of the following quotation attributed to
Freud throughout the internet:

"The Irish are a race for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."

I haven't been able to find any context for the quotation. Do you know
whether he said it?

[damian]

From the Freud Museum's website:

This remark is discussed in the Oscar-winning movie The Departed. However, there is no evidence Freud ever said it.

[Jay Tea]

...and here's me thinking psycholanalysis was of no use whatsoever full stop.

Ba-Zing!

...but seriously folks, i'm guessing Freud never met many Irish folk, given Mum, Mass and the Merry Mile i'd have assumed they'd be walking test cases!

[Mycroft]

Although Freud died in London he was only there for the last few years ofhis life, having spent almost all his career in Austria. Although he may have had a few Irish patients there would not have been enough to generalize (and of course if he had said it we English would quote it every few minutes)