Post World War I

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This paper compares the writings on World War I of Freud and Ortega y Gasset and looks at how both works reflect not only both authors' similar positive outlook about peace, progress, and society before the war, but their disillusionment about humanity and society after the war.

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"The outbreak of World War I was a traumatic and disillusioning event for many people in Europe, perhaps most of all for those who had committed themselves to a notion of progress and advancement in human affairs. The sheer scale of the destruction and death unleashed by the war, which "exceeded that of all other wars known to history," at the end of a century which had been largely seen as one of peace, progress and prosperity, was a profound shock one from which, it could be argued, the nations of Europe never entirely recovered."

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