McAfee's "Democracy and the Political Unconscious" examines some of the pathologies that have been created in the United States in the wake of the Collapse of the World Trade Center. She believes that the way that the event was handled has resulted in the United States continually reliving the trauma of that day, and believes that the War on Terror is one significant cause of this cycle of unending trauma. She points towards South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a model of how the United States could move past that trauma.