Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Norton Library)

by Freud, Sigmund; Strachey, James; Gay, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780393007701
• ISBN10: 0393007707
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

To Freud, individual and social psychology were virtually identical. The question he addresses here is, What are the emotional bonds that hold collective entities, such as an army and a church, together? It is a fruitful question, and Freud offers some interesting answers. But Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego stands chiefly as an invitation to further psychoanalytic exploration.

Table of Contents

Sigmund Freud: A Brief Life	ix
Peter Gay
Editor's Note	xxv
Introduction	3	(3)
Le Bon's Description of the Group Mind	6	(13)
Other Accounts of Collective Mental Life	19	(7)
Suggestion and Libido	26	(6)
Two Artificial Groups: the Church and the Army	32	(8)
Further Problems and Lines of Work	40	(6)
Identification	46	(8)
Being in Love and Hypnosis	54	(8)
The Herd Instinct	62	(7)
The Group and the Primal Horde	69	(9)
A Differentiating Grade in the Ego	78	(7)
Postscript	85	(14)
List of Abbreviations	99	(2)
Bibliography and Author Index	101	(6)
General Index	107