ABSTRACT
Woodrow Wilson's trip to the West in September 1919 was the supreme expression of the neurosis which controlled his life. His first speech, made on September 4 at Columbus, Ohio, showed that he had left fact and reality behind for the land in which facts are merely the embodiment of wishes. In his evening speech at St. Louis on September 5, 1919, he stated: "The real reason that the war we have just finished took place was that Germany was afraid her commercial rivals were getting the better of her." Wilson could not have made a statement so perverted as this except as a defense against unbearable scourgings of conscience. It is clear that he was in the hands of an inquisition conducted by his Super-Ego. On September 13, 1919, Wilson began to suffer from violent headaches which continued without interruption until his collapse on the train on September 26.
