ABSTRACT
The Great War, which in the words of Sigmund Freud aimed to suffocate "all the small players", directly involved women for the first time who were employed in the factories and farms, while the men were enlisted in the armed forces. During the throes of the war, Freud and H. Abraham maintained frequent contact through their correspondence, but they did not meet until the Budapest Congress. The psychoanalytic award won by Abraham for his work on the early infantile stage of libido development, an article with ambitious theories, and another eminently practical paper written by Ernst Simmel on war neuroses marked the start of the tragic pause of four years of the so-called Great War. Ernst Simmel, the director of a military hospital for patients suffering war neurosis, wrote a book about this type of patient from a psychoanalytic point of view, which was completely honest with respect to sexual aetiology.
