Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego

If we survey the life of an individual man of to-day, bearing in mind the mutually complementary accounts of group psychology given by the authorities, we may lose the courage,...

We may recall from what we know of the morphology of groups that it is possible to distinguish very different kinds of groups and opposing lines in their development. There are...

It is easy to state in a formula the distinction between an identification with the father and the choice of the father as an object. In the first case one's father is what one...

Although in this way the needs of a group carry it half-way to meet the leader, yet he too must fit in with it in his personal qualities. He must himself be held in fascination...

It might be said that the intense emotional ties which we observe in groups are quite sufficient to explain one of their characteristics--the lack of independence and initiative...

A comparison of the following pages with the German original (_Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse_, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Vienna, 1921) will show that certai...

We shall naturally not be surprised to hear that the sexual tendencies that are inhibited in their aims arise out of the directly sexual ones when inner or outer obstacles make...

[12] In the interpretation of dreams, to which, indeed, we owe our best knowledge of unconscious mental life, we follow a technical rule of disregarding doubt and uncertainty in...