Although there is a wide-ranging historiography dealing with psychoneurosis, various manifestations of psychic suffering widespread among traumatised soldiers during the Great War have received less attention. This essay, based on an analysis of soldiers' clinical files in Italian psychiatric hospitals, draws out these phenomena. The main forms assumed by this kind of trauma are three: soldiers who strip off their uniform and wander around naked; a sort of regression to childhood; and a particular type of hysteria. The essay stresses how existingstereotypes about women were adapted to form a new way of describing masculinity in crisis, and the new political subject: the masses. Too many emotions, too many nerves, define the affected men: they are subjects deprived of personality, and their predicament highlights the transition from soldier-hero to mass-soldier.

尽管有大量的史学涉及精神神经症，但第一次世界大战期间受创伤的士兵中普遍存在的各种精神痛苦的表现却很少受到关注。本文基于对意大利精神病院士兵临床档案的分析，得出了这些现象。这种创伤的主要表现形式有三种：士兵脱掉制服，赤身裸体游荡；一种回归童年的感觉；以及一种特殊类型的歇斯底里症。这篇文章强调了现有的关于女性的刻板印象如何被改编成一种描述危机中的男性气质的新方式，以及新的政治主体：群众。太多的情感，太多的神经，定义了受影响的男人：他们是被剥夺人格的主体，