Such a variety of expertise has been lavished on my brief study that, unsurprisingly, its basic contention has more than once been lost in the shuffle. This contention is that the key factors of the French regime suicide of 1940 recurred mutatis mutandis in 1958 even while the 1940 precedent was expressly denied. That recurrence was accordingly an unconscious reliving, which in turn argues a traumatic original.
Rudolph Binion (Sat,) studied this question.