THE HUMAN NEUROSIS
Omaha Beach
Scene from Saving Private Ryan

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Norman O. Brown wrote of "the human neurosis." In the face of the extraordinary, grotesque record of slaughter in the 20th Century (225 million deaths as a result of war and genocide), why don't we conceptualize historical events--and history itself--as a form of psychopathology?  Hypotheses? Send your idea to rakoenigsberg@libraryofsocialscience.com