Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego

by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Translator)

Overview

One of Freud's most introducing contributions to the study of psychology, this work explores group solidarity and behavior through the lens of psychoanalysis. While Freud helps to illuminate some of the nuances of group psychology, this work provokes many questions as to what makes people, and groups, think and behave as they do.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789356374577
Publisher:	Alpha Edition
Publication date:	07/22/2022
Pages:	74
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.18(d)

About the Author

Sigmund Freud ( born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 - 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.[4] Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna.[5][6] Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902.[7] Freud lived and worked in Vienna, having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. In 1938, Freud left Austria to escape the Nazis. He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939. In founding psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory.[8] His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of repression. On this basis Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego and super-ego.[9] Freud postulated the existence of libido, a sexualised energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt.[10] In his later works, Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture.

Table of Contents

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