possibility of disintegration and deflation. This two-way 
movement of expansion and deflation seems to be the cause of 
the restlessness of crowds and the uneasiness that goes with 
wealth. Canetti spends a good deal of analysis on the psychic 
effects of the German inflation after the First World War. The 
depreciation of the citizen went along with that of the German 
mark. There was a loss of face and of worth in which the 
personal and monetary units became confused.