Reflections
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ReflectionsDescription
Freud applies his basic psychoanalytic principles to the disillusionment and grief expressed by people regarding the violent war, suggesting that war strips humans of their civilized natures, leaving them primal and bloodthirsty, and arguing that peacetime society had left people unprepared to confront death's inevitability.Context
Coming to terms with the horrors of World War I, which had destroyed the illusion that humanity had progressed to a permanent high level of ethics and civilization.Category
Psychology