Youth has a collective sense of depression and meaninglessness engendered by the enormous, often futile war casualties of this century and by the threat of the atomic bomb. The intense preoccupation with sex can be understood as a protective reaction of Eros against the pervasive odor of death. Analysis neither encapsulates an individual from society nor does it necessarily turn people away from social activism. Rather, a sincere social activist will become steadier in his social interests as a result of analysis.