immediately after the war, when bullett first approached freud er, with the idea of writing the book, freud was apparently feeling very depressed, and er, he was  savagely critical of his own work, and er, because he had little access to patients during the war, he generally felt quite down and also  by presenting written for him, all he would need to wr all he would need to write, and according to er,other people, perhaps he was eating, he was receiving just sort of waiting to die.