The coronavirus is bringing to light what has been hidden beneath the surface. Just as inner and interpersonal conflicts are becoming apparent in many people’s personal lives, the psychology of our public and political life is also being affected by the pandemic. The reign of fear, the fragmentation of the reality in which we live, the fall into outdated absolute categories of right and wrong, good and evil, the separation between what we pretend to be and what we actually do, are some of the neurotic symptoms with which the virus has infected not people’s bodies but the public mind. A psychological analysis of what is happening may perhaps bring to the surface some of what is going on in Germany in the debate about the coronavirus.