Psychoanalysis developed as a theory of conflict near the war front.

Evidence

The determination of psychic disturbances—their definition, their clinical picture, and their therapy—is always contemporaneous with a certain state or a … Indeed, it is impossible to overestimate how much the present work owes to the psychiatry of war. Psychoanalysis is, above all, a theory of conflict, which was largely elaborated in proximity to the front. The role of World War I within the evolution of Freudian thought is well known. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 157

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that psychic disturbance definitions track a ‘state of war’ connects to her political thesis about psychopathology as a political gesture (capitalist social hierarchy).