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Psychoanalysis, with roots in the in 19th century European aspirations toward a rational world, unfolds in the twentieth century. Paradoxically and ironically, many of its central tenets presume an “average expectable environment.” The fact, of course, is that for most of the Western world's population, during the period of psychoanalytic ascendancy, the environment was brutal and chaotic if not horrific. Arguably, the technological advances of the modern age enabled human disruption and suffering