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Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

The impulses which a group obeys may according to circumstances be generous or cruel, heroic or cowardly, but they are always so imperious that no personal interest, not even that of self-preservation, can make itself felt.

—Chapter II.

Sigmund
Freud

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Sigmund Freud

Bibliographic Record

Translator’s Note

TRANSLATED BY JAMES STRACHEY

NEW YORK: BONI AND LIVERIGHT, [1922]
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

I. Introduction

II. Le Bon’s Description of the Group Mind

III. Other Accounts of Collective Mental Life

IV. Suggestion and Libido

V. Two Artificial Groups: The Church and the Army

VI. Further Problems and Lines of Work

VII. Identification

VIII. Being in Love and Hypnosis

IX. The Herd Instinct

X. The Group and the Primal Horde

XI. A Differentiating Grade in the Ego

XII. Postscript

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Sigmund Freud

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