In Flanders Fields by Amanda Betts

Author:Amanda Betts [Betts, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-81027-4
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2015-10-27T04:00:00+00:00

Surgery is battle, not poetry: Recovery ward, circa 1917, location unknown. Amputation was a fast solution, the decision to remove a limb made easier as the number of wounded climbed and the surgeon became more exhausted.

UNTIL ONLY ONE LONG lifetime ago, it was not possible to talk about unconscious drives and the havoc they wreak, because they had not themselves been contemplated. The other great intellectual revolution unfolding when the First World War came was psychoanalysis, though a man as resolute as McCrae may have disdained its insights. W.H.R. Rivers—like Freud, a neurologist—independently developed his psychoanalytic techniques to treat shell shock. He treated the war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen successfully enough to send them back to the front. Owen was killed in action during the crossing of the Sambre–Oise Canal on November 4, 1918, seven days before the armistice. When he was in England being treated by Rivers, he wrote “Dulce et decorum est,” and this is its last stanza:

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