Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) serves the author as a point of departure for sociopsychological hypotheses that go beyond the biologistic bias of the late Freudian concept of drive and its approach to the subject in terms of the antagonism of Eros and Thanatos. Busch's concrete historical and social diagnosis of present-day discontent is indebted to the work of Klaus Horn and Alfred Lorenzer, who regarded discontent as the result of a failed socialization process of an internal nature, the expression of “damaged subjectivity.” Like Freud before him, Busch speculates on the chances for the emergence of a “constitutional intolerance,” not only toward war in the traditional sense, but specifically toward the technological and industrial warfare threatening the natural foundations of the very existence of Homo sapiens on this planet.