Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Unabridged) - Sigmund Freud

By Sigmund Freud

Release Date: 2025-09-19

Genre: Nonfiction

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Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Sigmund Freud
In this monograph, Freud describes the psychological mechanisms at work within mass movements. According to Freud, the individual in a mass movement acquires a sense of infinite power to act on impulses that would otherwise have been restrained in the individual.  

This is accompanied by a loss of conscious personality so that the mass is controlled almost exclusively by the unconscious.

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Unabridged) - Sigmund Freud

By Sigmund Freud

Release Date: 2025-09-19

Genre: Nonfiction

(0 ratings)
In this monograph, Freud describes the psychological mechanisms at work within mass movements. According to Freud, the individual in a mass movement acquires a sense of infinite power to act on impulses that would otherwise have been restrained in the individual.  

This is accompanied by a loss of conscious personality so that the mass is controlled almost exclusively by the unconscious.

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