Refusing to celebrate a victory reveals a weak wish for that victory

Evidence

And as a matter of fact, if it is true that men seek in the future a guarantee of their success, a negation of their failures, it is true that they also feel the need of denying the indefinite flight of time and of holding their present between their hands. … The hours following the liberation of Paris, for example, were an immense collective festival exalting the happy and absolute end of that particular history which was precisely the occupation of Paris. There were at the moment worried spirits who were already surpassing the present toward future difficulties; they refused to rejoice under the pretext that new problems were going to come up immediately; but this ill-humor was met with only among those who had very slight wish to see the Germans defeated. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 120

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• QUESTION: Is this claim actually warranted? It reads more as assertion that those who worried about future problems secretly wanted defeat — a testable but dubious psychological claim.