The Great War and the Fifth International Psychoanalytic Congress in Budapest: Psychoanalysis in the 1910s

Objective/Context: This article studies psychoanalysis in the 1910s and aims to understand impacts of Great War soldiers’ neurosis on psychoanalytic movement knowledge through Fifth International Psychoanalytic Congress 1918 Budapest. Methodology: In dialogue with cultural intellectual history, this paper investigates psychoanalytical spaces sociability, such as Psychoanalytical Association its congresses. Originality: A thorough historiographical review reveals few detailed publications Budapest itself. fills gap by synthesizing prior findings about congress, connecting historiographies World I. Conclusions: The congress was a milestone for psychoanalysis, considering first governmental recognition treatment, theoretical changes produced war neurosis, institutional modifications Association, expansion democratization treatment.