The Great War, Psychoanalysis, and Society: Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents
I. Imperial Germany and the Great War
II. Freud’s Revolution
III. Freud’s “Reflections upon War and Death”
IV. The Civilizing Process as a Double Bind

Versailles Peace Conference
Article 231, the “war guilt clause”
the primacy of domestic politics
SPD, progressive liberals, Catholic Center party (“Weimar coalition”)

the unconscious
the pleasure principle / Eros / libido
id = Es (“it”)
ego = Ich (“I”)
superego = Über-ich (“over me”)
“Where id is, there ego shall be.”
“Remembering, Repeating, Working Through”

“Reflections upon War and Death” (1915)
sublimation
guilt
homo homini lupus (man is a wolf to man)
death drive (aggression)
the narcissism of minor differences