Explores the situation of psychoanalysis in wartime, using the example of Beirut, where protracted hostilities and death are woven into the fabric of everyday life. The author argues that the structured psychoanalytic setting in the midst of destructuring chaos helps reestablish the functions of the controlling ego, which, in turn, reduces the anxiety induced by war as collective traumClinical vignettes exemplify analysands' reactions to war, including disavowal, splitting of the personal and social ego, trivialization of violence and death, and "fusional invulnerability" in which analysands perceive themselves as sharing an illusory invulnerability with their analyst in the analytic setting.