ABSTRACT
The word "cruelty", the meaning of cruelty and of cruelties, is the focal point around which Sigmund Freud's argument becomes both more political and more rigorously analytical, when he is asked to reflect on what is going wrong in the world, what is wrong with the already foreseeable globalisation. Taking advantage of the fact that Freud's stay in Berlin had been prolonged, Bullitt suggested that they work together on a study of President Wilson, whose role in the negotiations in Versailles was likely to have a major influence on future world politics. In a letter written to Marie Bonaparte on 7 December 1933, Freud expressed regret that this project was left unfinished. In 1938 W. C. Bullitt saw Freud again in London and the two men reached agreement on the final version of the manuscript. Named United States Ambassador to France in 1936, William Bullitt alerted Roosevelt in March 1938 that Freud was in danger in Vienna.
