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THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES
GIFT OF
Dr. Judd Marmor,
2002
THE INTERNATIONAL
PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL
LIBRARY
EDITED BY ERNEST JONES
No. 6
GROUP PSYCHOLOGY
AND
SIGM. FREUD, M.
D.,
LU. D.
AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION
BY
JAMES STRACHEY
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PRESS
EN NA
Copyright 1922
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
German
original {Massenpsychologie
und
Ick-Analyse,
in
show
1)
technical
terms
have
been
translated
in
s.
CONTENTS
Introduction
....
Le Bon's Description
Group Mind
of the
III
IV
V Two
VI
Vn
Vm
IX
X
XI
XII
Artificial
Work
Identification
Being
in
The Herd
Instinct
the Primal
....
Differentiating
Postscript
Horde
Grade
in the
Ego
Army
INTRODUCTION
It
true
is
that
Individual
which he
man and
explores
is
the
concerned
paths by
Psychology
certain
exceptional
but
conditions
mental
life
someone
['Group'
is
else
is
invariably
used throughout
involved,
as a
to
the
rather
Le Bon.
even
in
Translator?^
model,
an object,
as
same time
the
extended but
The
have
social
an opponent,
as
Psychology
Psychology as well
Social
at
is
in
this
and
been
hitherto
research
in fact
the
may
phenomena; and
and
sisters,
physician
his
analytic
as a helper,
Ego
to his brothers
and to
all
subject
chief
claim
be
to
as
may be
they
respect
in this
psycho-
of
considered
as
'
narcissistic
instincts
is
social
them
within
and
'
'
totall}^
people.
narcissistic
autistic
the
or
other
of
influence
which
in
,
'
partially
withdrawn
The
Bleuler
mental
acts
from the
between
contrast
would
perhaps
therefore
falls
call
wholly
to
differentiate
it
from
is
a Social
Group Psychology.
The individual in the relations which have already
been mentioned to his parents and to his brothers
and sisters, to the person he is in love with, to his
friend, and to his physician
comes under the influence
of only a single person, or of a very small number
of persons, each one of whom has become enormously
or
important to
Group Psychology
relations
Now
him.
it
has
in
speaking
become
of
Social
or
isolate
as the subject of
Introduction
number
he
of people simultaneously,
many
in
Psychology
man
by a
individual
large
whom
people with
is
may
an
of
is
respects be
to
Group
him.
member
as a
strangers
of a profession, of an institution,
component
or as a
group
into a
When
purpose.
severed
mena
at
this
in
once
way,
natural
is
it
being expressions
further
reducible,
of
these
the
special
object that
of
by
number a
itself
that
is
pectation
primitive
seems
special
social
instinct
instinct
not
therefore
is
not
('herd instinct',
any
light in
venture
to
make it capable
our mental life a new instinct
brought into play. Our ex-
significance so great as to
otherwise
is
that
we may perhaps
difficult to
of arousing in
possibilities
it
it
Rut
been
conditions as
has
continuity
directed
towards
instinct
may
two
other
not
be a
may be
of
its
embraces an immense
is
number
only in
its
of separate
infancy,
issues
and
offers to investigators
one
from
another.
different forms of
of the mental
a great
countless
even been
not
have hitherto
problems
properly
The mere
Ego
which
distinguished
classification
of the
expenditure
and
of observation
rise to
require
exposition,
copious literature.
this
will
And
they
which
will
the
in
fact only
be
depth-psychology
specially concerned.
a
of
few
with here.
questions with
psycho-analysis
is
II
of
Instead
more
starting
begin
useful to
from
with
some
definition,
among
them
characteristic
attached.
facts
We
can
few
our
both
achieve
and to
specially
which
to
of
indication
from
seems
it
the
select
striking
and
inquiry'
can
be
these
aims
by
of
means
work Psychologie des foules}
of quotation from
concerned
Psychology,
positions, the
instincts,
with
the
tions with
achieved
its
task,
these matters
with
which would
^
lie
the
exploring
motives
an individual
again.
itself
before
it
predis-
actions
to him,
inter-connections,
confronted by
unachieved.
his rela-
had completely
If
a
It
whole of
it
would
new
would
task
be
1 2th. Impression,
1920.
condition
certain
understand
to
surprising
thought,
would have
How
a
does
individual?
is
over
influence
And what
it
then,
of a
'group'?
is
mental
the
nature
the
is
evidently to
is
the
of
life
the mental
of
in
of
for
collection
forces
approaching them
is
characteristic
to
been expected.
change which
It
it
decisive
What,
group'.
quite
in
into
insertion
'psychological
had come
it
and acted
felt,
w^hat
that under a
fact
whom
individual
this
way from
different
And
the
explain
obliged to
Ego
the
material;
its
by
description
the
of
thing
that
is
be
to
explained.
I
will
now
'The most
says:
Le Bon speak
let
striking
peculiarity
psychological group ^
is
the
compose
individuals
unlike
be
their
that
mode
of
character,
or their
have been
transformed
for
the
life,
however
the
[See footnote
page
i.]
like
fact
or
their
that they
Whoever be
their occupations,
intelligence,
into
presented by a
following.
it,
He
himself.
in
which makes
Lc Bon' s
them
which
in
come
a state
in
and
them
of
individual
in
each
think,
feel,
and act
think,
feel,
from that
Group Alind
DescriptioiL of the
of isolation.
which
feelings
would
do not
into being, or
into
is
moment
combined,
exactly
body form by
living
displays
the
as
ver}^
shall
which
cells
the
singly.'
the individuals
unity, there
and
this
an
observ^ation
the
group
insert
in
own,
bond might be
question;
precisely
29.)^
Le
and
shall
this point.
at
combined
characteristic of a group.
this
are
(p.
those
of interrupting
from
different
liberty
are
constitute a
their reunion a
characteristics
We
cells
into
If
to unite them,
the
thing
that
is
in
it
It
is
easy
forming part
individual,
but
of
it
to
prove
group
is
less
how much
differs
from
the individual
the
isolated
of this difference.
^
[References are to
Translator.]
To
'
necessary
the
in
place to
first
phenomena play an
organic
in
scious
subtle
scarcely
is
number
a very small
that
the
truth
part
operations
mind
of the
life
with
more
Our conscious
acts are
substratum
of
consists
which
generation,
constitute
from
the
in
This
common
innumerable
the
down
handed
characteristics
is
uncon-
its
discovering
in
is
it
unconscious
the
in
analyst,
successful
than
them
mind the
that
comparison
in
The most
life.
observer,
but also
The conscious
importance
Ego
preponderating
altogether
life,
of the intelligence.
of small
to
call
by modern psychology,
established
not only
generation
to
of a race.
genius
lie
causes
secret
more
secret
ignorant.^
the
observation.
^
reads
'
'
(p.
hidden
there
which
many
are
we
avow,
not
but
others
ourselves
are
motives
which
escape
our
30.)
beiviisstcr'
of
we do
of
result
causes
still,
The
that
"
inconscients\
Translator.]
a misunderstanding of the
Le
Bo7i's Descriptio7i
Le Bon
thinks
Group Mind
tJie
of individuals
obliterated
that in this
distinctiveness
what
unconscious emerges;
racial
submerged
the
that
which
in
what
in
mental
is
shows
The
vanishes.
heterogeneous
We
may
is
say
the development of
superstructure,
individuals
and
group,
in
homogeneous.
is
particular acquirements
the
that
become
way their
of
such
dissimilarities,
is
way
In this
to
new
have
possessed,
not
individuals in a
previously
which they
characteristics
and
he
seeks
reason for
this
in
The
first
is
'
the
part of
less
that,
invincible
irresponsible,
the
sentiment
of
and
From
much importance
so
characteristics.
that in a group
For us
to
it
him
to
not
appearance
would
is
throw
which
we need
the
the individual
consequence
responsibility
in
attribute
of
new
be enough to say
brought under conoff the repressions
lO
of
unconscious
his
he
the manifestations of
that
We
predisposition.
human mind
no
can find
sense of responsibility
are
is
which
in
all
contained as a
difficulty
in
under-
or
these circumstances.
in
fact
in
conscience
of
new
apparently
displays
unconscious,
disappearance
the
standing
then
this
the
in
evil
is
The
instincts.
which
characteristics
Ego
of a
It
has
Angst]'
is
The
'
second
cause,
intervenes to determine
is
called conscience.^
which
is
contagion,
manifestation
the
they
the trend
menon
are
of which
it
to take.
is
easy
Contagion
in
also
groups
same time
is
a pheno-
must be classed
among those phenomena of a hypnotic order, which
we shall shortly study. In a group every sentiment
but that
it is
and act
is
contagious,
There
is
seme
and
difference
It
contagious
to
such
more
racial
We
Le Bon's unconscious
psycho-analysis.
to
be found
in
Le Bon.
Le
Bo7i*s Description
Mind
of the Grotip
his personal
an aptitude
This
is
except
when he makes
man
part
is
of a
We
upon
'
later
shall
this
last
third
cause,
determines
in
racteristics
w^hich
and by
far the
most important,
contrary
quite
by the
presented
those
statement.
isolated
at
times
individual.
to
allude
mentioned above
'
To understand
to bear in
We
is
mind
only an effect.
this
phenomenon
it
is
necessary
know to-day that by various processes an individmay be brought into such a condition that,
ual
him of
with
it,
his
character
and
in
who
has deprived
utter
contradiction
The
habits.
most
careful
investigations
mersed
for
soon finds
either
himself
consequence
in
the
of
state,
fascination
in
which
much
are
resembles
ignorant
the
in
state
a
of
himself
hands of the
the
in
conscious
has
personality
and discernment
bent
are
are
hypnotiser.
Ego
will
and thoughts
feelings
by
determined
direction
The
vanished
entirely
All
lost.
the
in
the
hypnotiser.
'Such
also
approximately
is
the
of the
state
He
in
no longer conscious
of his acts.
In
the
case,
his
at
same
the
be brought
the
to
accomplishment
of
for
all
by
strength
'
certain
We
in
see,
then,
irresistible
more
personality,
conscious
personality,
irresistible
in
it
gains in
34.)
the
disappearance
of the
the
the
contagion
im-
(p.
that
may
Under
undertake the
will
with
the
is
that,
reciprocity.'
and
he
conscious
gestion
of exaltation.
acts
groups than
subject,
same
of
This impetuosity
petuosity.
case
high
of a suggestion,
influence
the
degree
as
of a
characteristics
group.
He
is
his will.'
(p.
35.)
to
be guided
Le Bon' s
have quoted
make
it
passage so
this
Le Bon
Mind
fully
in
order to
and
does
the two
not
We
states.
objection
at
the
that
fact
this
point,
two
the
becoming altered
in
but
v.'ish
last
causes
only to
of
an
emphasize
individual
be a manifestation
Moreover the effects of the two
seems
of the suggestibility.
factors
best
v-.ith
in
text
:he
actually to
of
for
those manifestations
hypnotic
But
influence.
of suggestion
to
the
in
phenomena
what source?
We
when we
notice
that
one
of the
chief elements
who
Le Bon's
tinguishes
exposition.
between
this
But
he
is
is
of
to replace
not mentioned
nevertheless
dis-
by which the
original suggestion
is
strengthened.
and
Gro7ip Psychology
14
Here
Ego
is
an organised group,
man descends
the
the
by
a creature acting
is,
the violence,
the
ferocity,
enthusiasm
heroism
of
primitive
in
shows not a
from
its
source.
Le Bon
its
primitive people
A
is
single feature
difficulty
to
group
in
Compare
man
Jeder, sieht
Sind
[Ever^'^one,
placing
similarity with
impulsive,
or in
deriving
the
(p.
mental
way
life
of
40).
Schiller's couplet:
ihn einzeln,
ist
seen by himself,
When
which a psycho-analyst
and of children
is
Le Bon.
in
and turn to
individual,
it
any
by pointing
also
beings.
a group.^
find
and
he becomes merged
would
possesses
intellectual ability
It
He
instinct.
and
He
rungs
a barbarian
is
spontaneity,
(p. 36.)
It
several
he may be a
Isolated,
is
Dummkopf daraus.
they're in co7-pore,
'
descriptive sense,
'
'
'.
Le Bon' s
Description of
which
impulses
group
Group Mind
tJie
may
obeys
according
to
they
but
Though
it
never
may
so
verance.
for
desire
long,
cannot
It
and the
sense
Nothing about
(p. 41).
itself felt
desire
things
for
group
is
this
of perse-
desires.
It
its
has
no
has
for
always
a
it.
and
faculty,
in states
very
group
the
thinks in images,
It
up by association
another
and open
credulous
critical
a group.
in
extraordinarily
it
one
call
So
it
yet
between
delay
of what
ated.
incapable
any
tolerate
fulfilment
a group
passionately,
of
influence,
which
make
premeditated.
is
it
is
it
to
no personal
that
interest,
is
imperious
so
(just
as
of free imagination),
reality
is
\Instanz\?'
never checked
The
feelings of
knows
neither
doubt
nor
uncertainty.^
In
the
interpretation
of dreams,
to
which,
life,
indeed,
we
we
follow a
It
expressed,
it is
certainty;
a trace
hatred
changed
instantly
if
the
Ego
suspicion
is
an incontrovertible
into
is
all
extremes, a group
of antipathy
56).^
(p.
Inclined
as
it
itself
is
to
who wishes
to
produce an
adjustment
logical
it
needs no
his
in
upon
effect
dream,
dream
as
p. 409.])
^
every emotion
and
it
of the
is
is
also
unmeasured
and
single
emotions
will
intensification
the
in
express
life.
Thanks
unconscious,
itself in
dream
life
to the isolation
a slight annoyance
as a wish for the
impetus
of
of children,
may
give the
microscope
the
of
portrayal
analysis
in
the
now reappears
as
an infusorium.' {Die
Le Bon' s
most
the
in
and
forcible
must
he
Group Mhid
Dcscriptioji of the
he
must
same
thing
colours,
repeat
the
exaggerate,
and
again
again.
Since a group
or error, and
stitutes truth
own
its
great
obedient
to
be
only
regards
strength,
merely
its
heroes
is
Fundamentally
and
it
and
unbounded
an
What
and to
entirely
advances
(p.
is
it
all
it
it
even violence.
or
strength,
can
which
weakness.
of
is
it
and
force
masters.
as
by kindness,
form
intolerant
respects
influenced
as
as
is
It
what con-
to
conscious, moreover, of
is
it
authority.
slightly
demands of
It
no doubt as
in
is
fear
its
conservative,
innovations and
respect
for
tradition
62).
In order to
make
morals of groups,
the
fact
group
the
the.t
when
cruel,
in
are stirred
brutal
and destructive
only
up to find
achievements
and
motive
force,
It
is
in
groups
the
are
shape
personal
with
interest
groups
possible to
it
epoch,
capable
also
abnegation,
of
While with
almost
is
is
lie
But under
free gratification.
devotion to an ideal.
individuals
prominent.
w^hich
instincts,
unselfishness,
isolated
come together in a
fall
away and all
individuals
consideration
into
all
dormant
very
speak of an
the
rarely
individual
Gro^ip Psychology
and
Ego
Whereas
far
below that of an
may
below
as
his
may
it
always
is
conduct
ethical
its
65).
deep
sink
it.
Some
show
above
high
as
rise
individual,
(p.
other
features
a clear light
in
In
description
is
the identi-
by
exist side
Le Bon's
in
well justified
fication of the
people.
how
any conflict
side
arising
between them.
But
conscious mental
life
from
the
other,
this is
without
contradiction
logical
in
the un-
young
In
children,
long
side for a
the
without
emotional
either
to
contrary one.
making
ambivalent
instance,
for
are nearest
expression
conflict
time,
who
often
is
it
eventually a
settled
by
the
opment of a neurosis
pressed emotion
may
in
an
adult
also
will
frequently persist
to
is
it
any proceedings
has repudiated.
time,
the
until
The
suddenly one
affective
cathexis
[see footnote
it
that a sup-
result in
between
show
for
Le Bon's
group, further,
Mind
19
is
power
tempests
in
them
stilling
117).
(p.
They
and formulas.
w^ords
solemnity
with
are uttered
the
in
presence of
groups,
an expression of respect
tenance,
and
are considered
powers.'
(p.
nection to
heads
all
natural
as
117.)
It
remember
on
visible
is
necessary
only
is
the
taboo
they
supernatural
as
forces,
every coun-
By many
are bowed.
in
this
con-
ascribe to
And,
finally,
They demand
truth.
have
illusions,
never
thirsted
after
integration of
its
personality,
is
a co-
have grown up
in
process
in the
as
co-ordination of
the
all
\Three Contributions
Disease
Monograph
unification of the
of the
that
libido
of
men
and the
Bible,
^
is
ego
to
Series,
is
No.
liable to
1910.])
same interferences
shown by numerous
of science
See Totem
familiar
like.
tmd Tabu.
7,
the
as that
instances, such as
their
faith
in
the
20
they
real;
is
fluenced by what
is
We
the
unfulfilled
by
is
this
of the
found
have
hysterical
of a group
things
falls
the
into
an
of
function
the
an
in
but
based
is
obsessional
evil
Indeed,
out.
for
reality
symptom
of an
fact
in
neurotics
what
objective
born
illusion
that
ordinary
not
psychological reality.
neurosis
predominance of
is
We
of neuroses.
are guided
They
true.
is
"j"]^.
of phantasy and
life
as strongly in-
untrue as by what
unreal precedence
is
almost
are
Ego
testing
background
just
mental
the
in
intention
as in
operations
the
reality of
comparison with
What Le Bon
groups
make
is
an
thinks that as
together
less
out
in
underlying
soon
certain
as
principle
living
numbers,
so
gathered
matter
whether
He
are
beings
no
clearly.
human
under
the
Lc
authority of a chief
ient
with
it
held
in
in
his personal
Bon then
that
of
master.
its
must
faith
(in
can
accept
himself be
an
idea) in
from him.
Le
felt
in
must possess
he
faith;
fit
will,
own,
its
submits
it
He must
qualities.
without a master.
by a strong
fascination
this
in
meet the
has no
live
an obed-
is
Although
half-way to
gi'oup
obedience
for
thirst
instinctively to
it
134).
(p.
licrd,
has such a
It
Group Mind
On
make themselves
in
he
calls
'
prestige
'
Prestige
is
a sort of domination
astonishment
with
arouse a feeling
(p.
critical
faculty,
and respect.
that
like
of
and
would
It
fascination
in
fills
us
seem
to
hypnosis
148).
ficial
of tradition.
Since
in
everv
art,
case
it
etc.,
harks
in
virtue
back to
22
the
past,
it
cannot be of
standing this
attached to a
few people,
magic.
dependent upon
failure
(p.
We
much
puzzling influence.
has
it
as though
All
help to us in under-
Personal prestige
who become
the
Ego
effect of
leaders
is
by
making every-
prestige,
success, and
is
lost in
the
is
also
event of
159).
cannot
feel
that^Le Bon
has
brought
the
executed
ni
We
have
way
of introduction,
our
own Psychology
made
use
of
Le Bon's
because
in
the
life.
it
fits
description
in
by
so well with
emphasis which
it
lays
B.
Kraskovic jun.
Vukovar,
the bibliography.
191
5.
24
all
that
Bon
are
the
comparison
the two
with
Ego
At
Le
Sighele.*
notions
even
and
people,
by
shortly before
left
is
mental
the
had
these
of
life
primitive
been
often
naturally
what
But,
of the
Bon and
the
rest
There
undisputed.
is
all
the
left
phenomena
of the
have been
to
is
in
also possible
the
of
manifestations
other
distinguish
is
it
group
certain
only
that
dem-ce
of
isolated
individuals
prominent.'
that
is
it
collectivities
unselfishness
motive
only
to admit that in
higher
and
the
with
interest
groups
of a
high
'While
with
capable
and devotion.
personal
force,
are
it
is
is
it,
almost
very
the
rarely
65.)
at
in
the
Or they
high demands.
circumstances
phenomenon
for
all
individual,
one way or
there
of
another to
indeed,
regards
that
he
while
come up
as
to
a
its
ma\'
arise
in
which
enthusiasm,
As
25
work
intellectual
communities
the
made
the
has
possible.
it
remains a
fact,
thought
mind
is
capable
in
of
solitude.
genius
in
intellectual creation,
as
itself,
It
well as
more than
lives,
perfect a mental
or whether he does
work
in
looks
as
were bound
is
easy
dilemma.
to
of
Group Psycholog\'
may
assertions of
require
Sighele,
to
be distinguished.
Le Bon and
the
The
group
'
and
rest relate to
groups of a
some passing
interest has
26
The
of
characteristics
The op-
posite
those
groups
stable
mankind pass
or
associations
same
the
first
in
kind stand
swell.
McDougall,
starts
in
been mentioned,
his
group
'
possesses no organisation at
'
of this
crowd
kind
of
without
for
as
'
crowd
'
possessing
an organisation,
at
and
it
factor of organisation.
the
which
sort
as a high but
in
their lives,
and
groups,
revolutionary
of
Ego
all
that
He
in
the
he says,
or one
all
describes a group
come
hardly
events
the
precisely
in
together
rudiments
these
of
simple
members
of a
in
random crowd
(p. 22).
of people
be
in
common
^
fulfilled;
with
one another, a
Cambridge University
common
Press, 1920.
interest
in
and
other,
interpolate)
(p.
The
23).
homogeneity
degree
higher
the
,
'
degree
like
to
influence
'this
of
do
readily
27
situation
should
reciprocal
of
the
more
some
in
('consequently',
some
'
Life
A'Ie7ttal
the
mental
individuals
or
exaltation
in
that
and
who
are
unreservedly to
merged
the
in
it
is
in
the
produced
'
a group to a
attain
pleasurable
is
McDougall's
In
24).
stirred
seldom or never
they
conditions;
are
group
emotion
of
(p.
it
men's emotions
opinion
those
of
of
most im-
the
also
formation
intensification
member
every
pitch
of the
result
under other
experience
for
passions
and thus
to
become
he
of their
calls
the
'
individuality.
we
perception
calculated
in
are
of
number
the
signs
automatically to
the person
The
already familiar.
who
of people
of
an
is
emotional
that the
state
is
perceives them.
in
fact
whom
the
28
effect
this
of
the
other
people,
this
does
stronger
The
Ego
into
the
increases
the
slip
becomes intensified
Something is unmistakably
by
individuals
interaction.
compulsion
the nature of a
to
mutual
work
at
in
remain
to
in
this
in
way
(p.
39).
from groups.
a
sense
of
unlimited
peril.
For
human
society,
moment
the
which
is
to
and
it,
it
for
will
the
In
put
former
'
surrender to the
that
is
hibitions.
and
individual fears,
many
safer to
of
whole
for
whose
inhibitions.
in
follow the
'
certainly
On
conscience
attraction
obtained
the
whole,
'
out
of
of
authority,
It
is
opposition
example of
pack'.
his
wielder
be
the
replaces
it
w^ith
action,
may
and so
in-
not
so
therefore,
it
is
remarkable
group
we
that
doing
an individual
see
approving
or
have avoided
should
which
things
in
this
to
the
mystery
which
often
so
is
29
a
would
he
and
in
little
of
life;
up a
clear
in
by
covered
the
McDougall
the
(p.
does
collective
He
41).
level.
because
dispute
of
inhibition
those
of
latter
are
general
in
as
thesis
intelligence
order
higrher
obstructed
an
to
groups
in
their
activity,
of
emotion
sound
for
own
their
to
in
intensification
unfavourable conditions
creates
the
down
The
brincr
not
intellectual
work,
sense
of his
individual
of responsibility
for
own
his
performances.
The judgement
group
'
no
is
Le Bon.
Such a
impulsive,
violent,
extreme
tions
in
and
suggestible,
ment,
less
of
refined
in
than
friendly
is
excessively
the
displaying only
careless
incapable
'
inconsistent,
fickle,
action,
the
more
group
but
easily
unorgathat
of
emotional,
and
coarser emo-
hasty
the
'
irresolute
sentiments;
deliberation,
any
sums
McDougall
which
with
extremely
in
judg-
simpler
swayed and
and
led,
30
Ego
by
consciousness
the
tends
produce
to
learnt to expect
Hence
power.
of
the
all
any
of
own
its
and
in
like that of
an unruly
its
human
average member;
beings.'
McDougall contrasts
Since
in a strange
it is
it
absolute
that
and
irresponsible
is
away
we have
manifestations
behaviour
its
so
force,
the
45.)
(p.
behaviour
of a
we
cribed,
in
what
factors
'
particularly
conditions
'
interested to
learn
and
what
consists,
by
produced.
is
it
be
organisation
this
principal
life
shall
raising
for
collective
live
mental
to a higher level.
The
first
that there
is
group.
the
former,
group
for
This
if
may be
the
same
some time;
either
material or formal:
individuals
and
the
in
persist
latter,
the
in
there
if
is
The second
condition
member
of the group
formed
of
capacities of
the
is
some
nature,
the group,
that
the
individual
idea
should be
in
definite
composition,
so
that
from
functions
and
he
may
this
develop
emotional
relation
the
to
31
group
as
whole.
The
third
(perhaps
into interaction
many respects.
The fourth
that the
is
but
it
with
rivalry)
differing
group
the
that
is
form of
in the
to
from
should
in
it
possess
traditions,
determine
the
of
relations
members
its
one
to
another.
The
fifth
is
structure, expressed
in
the specialisation
According
are
the
fulfilled,
McDougall,
to
these
if
of
intellectual
ability
seems
It
McDougall
group
the
'
of
it.
which
condition
organisation
'
of
the
group
characteristic
precisely
of the
extinguished in him by
For the
the
that
as
lower-
with
another way.
were
us
of the
collective
members
for individual
designates
can
cure for
to
conditions
avoided by withdrawing
is
differ-
disadvantages
psychological
and
constituents.
its
individual,
possessed his
own
those
and
individual
the formation
outside
continuity,
the
his
features
which
which are
of the
primitive
group.
group,
self-consciousness,
Group Psychology
32
his
traditions
and
tions
Owing
and customs,
position,
and
lost this
'
own
of
of a valuable
aim
the
unorganised
is
to
equip
individual,
remark of
If
the
we
'
his
we
thus recog-
group
shall
rivals.
group he had
be
with
the
reminded
of
func-
particular
from
apart
attributes
his
kept
Ego
multicellular
is
bio-
character
all
Instincts
of the Herd
m Pence andWar.
IV
We
started
individual in a
to
what
from
the
group
is
fundamental
subjected through
often a profound
is
alteration
mental
reduced,
both
being
processes
inten-
becomes markedly
sified,
influence
its
in his
activity.
an
that
fact
evidently
the
in
the group;
and
result
this
to
We
instincts
his
and
individual,
of his
be reached
by
inclinations
heard
have
that
his
which
these
often
'
at least
group;
fact
upon
inhibitions
each
can only
of
'
but
this
Group Psychology
the intensification
of the
intellect
the
the fundamental
two
theses
in primitive
groups.
Our
as
to
inhibition
interest
3
is
Ego
34
now
ation
experienced by
is
clear
is
which has
mentioned,
that
is,
the
as
in-
been
already
instinct of self-
and that
names,
Tarde
calls
it
agreeing with
is
'
even though
the
magic
imitation
writer
;
'
who
is
given various
word
'suggestion'.
it
we
but
protests
cannot
that
help
imitation
by
capacity
its
moment
for a
ciple of
'
evoking
for
is
only recognizable
McDougall
suggestion.
gives us an impression
that
'
his
on
further
that this
assertions
consideration
principle
about
'
says
no
imitation
Brugeilles: 'L'essence
Revue philosophique,
we
191 3,
'
are forced
'
contagion
du phenomene
XXV.
But
perceive
to
prin-
might enable
familiar
,
'
except
social: la suggestion.'
decided
no
upon
stress
doubt
35
emotional factor.
the
something
There
is
which,
tion
in
that
resist
it,
Why,
opposite way?
obey
us
is
are
to
a group?
in
what com-
that
imitation,
and what
the
group's
suggestive
quite an
is
tendency
in
successful!}
in
do we invariably give
therefore,
this
emo-
into the
fall
and react
us
in
of an
do we not
often
emotion,
the
exists
evade
jNIcDougall
this,
suggestion;
we
that
hear
groups
We
shall
that suggestion
actualh^ an
(or
more
correctly
irreducible, primitive
damental fact
in
the
mental
life
suggestibility)
phenomenon, a
of man.
is
fun-
Such, too,
was the opinion of Bernheim, of whose astonishingarts I was a witness in the year 1889. But I can
feeling
muffled
hostility
to
When
patient who
a
the shout:
with
met
showed himself unamenable was
'What are you doing? Voiis voiis co7itresuggestionnez!\
to myself that this was an evident injustice
I said
and an act of violence. For the man certainly had
this
tyranny
a right
to
of suggestion.
counter-suggestions
if
36
Ego
of the
my
Later on
resistance
was
suggestion,
be preserved
from
Thinking
explanation.
itself
of
it,
to
I
^
:
Sag'
wo
Damals
hat Christoph
hin
den Fuss
gestellt?^
sed Christus
Christophorus Christum,
orbem:
sustulit
Now
that
once more
To
this
find there
statement
ception, which
away
from
no change
is
can
discover
in
only
it
some
for
the situation.
ex-
a single
since
it
one
is
notice
that
formulate
is,
the
particular
concept
efforts
being
are
suggestion
of
made
Konrad Richter:
'Der
deutsche
S.
And
Christoph.'
Thus,
and
this
Berlin,
I.
Netirology
that
correctly,
to
920, Vol.
I,
whole
his foot?']
No.
I.
Journal of
37
any sort
where
'
whatever, just
influence
ot
to suggest
and
'
'
suggestion
as
'
English,
in
correspond to
nature
of the
of suggestion,
that
of
is,
foundation
logical
takes
place.
should
not
avoid
literature
of the
close at
thirty years,
last
inquir}^
if
were not
being undertaken
is
in
this
very task.
Instead of this
concept
the
make an attempt
shall
of libido
purpose of throwing
the
for
at using
light
neuroses.
Libido
of
the
emotions.
(regarded
at
is
as
present
We
actually
the
mean by
commonly
in
word
love
that
love,
those
not
instincts
that
naturally consists
called
of
the energ\'
though
may be comprised
The nucleus of what we
all
'love'.
name
magnitude,
mensurable)
by
call
quantitative
(and
this
is
what
is
of)
But
we
sexual union as
its
aim.
and
Grotip Psychology
38
and
the
in
on
the
friendship
expression
way towards
they
are
in
from reaching
that
of their
original
nizable
(as
these tendencies
all
same
from
instinctive
in
are
activities;
in
force their
instincts
other circumstances
aim or
this
though
it,
children,
diverted
and
parents
relations
in
in
us
the
Ego
for
objects
lies
of
'on
humanity
for
concrete
justification
what
love
other,
an
this
love
'
and love
devotion to
Our
name
always
prevented
are
preserving
enough
such
in
features
as
longing
the
for
out
We
an
entirely
creating the
we
that
of our
loose
word
to
'
love
'
with
its
of
decision,
as the basis
it
this
to
done nothing
'wider' sense.
In
coincides
exactly
P-^VCho-analysis,
'
the
has
in
'
of the
love
been
had been
taking love in
origin, function,
its
Eros
with
as
original
it
let
Yet psycho-
has
well.
psycho-analysis has
analysis
in
and
uses,
and expositions as
discussions
this
unification
numerous
cannot
scientific
By coming
piece
justifiable
and relation
philosopher Plato
force,
shown
the libido, of
in
detail
by
Nachmansohn and
famous
his
in
above
'
take
always
not
But
sense. ^
'
when they
name
in the
it
same
thinkers
seriously,
even
gives
then,
these
love
instincts
The
regarded
have taken
majority
'
educated
an
as
people
'
insult,
and
sex
considers
of
nomenclature
this
their
only
great
P^aul,
of their origin.
have
this
their
Psycho-analysis,
the
the
to
he certainly understands
else,
all
wider
Pfister;^
epistle
39
as
'
pan-sexualism
Anyone
'.
miliating
of the
I
want
for
to,
like
to
avoid
and thus
first
But
concessions
did not
to
faint-
heartedness.
ma}'
lead one;
little
by
little
Eroslehre
1915,
of
sex;
the
Greek
in
word 'Eros',
ibid.,
substance too.
in
ashamed
being
Bd.
1
Internationale
Platos'.
Pfister:
Ill;
'Plato
als
ZeitscJirift fiir
Vorlaufer
Psychoanalyse,
der Psychoanalyse',
'Though
am
men and
III.]
of angels, and
40
which
to
is
more than a
and
[love];
in
is
Ego
translation
finally,
make no concessions.
We
will
that
position
our
try
love
relationships
emotional
expression,
neutral
What would
Our
support
power
what
than to Eros,
distinctiveness
influence
him
pression
that
of being
in
to
position
''ihnen
who
Secondly,
world?
it
could
in
that
if
the
in
feat
it
first
that
First,
group
some
instance
is
kind: and
be better ascribed
in
the
an individual gives up
his
together everything
by suggestion,
he does
con-
evidently
is
other
its
gives
because he
members
one the
feels the
im-
need
harmony with them rather than in opthem so that perhaps after all he does
zu Liebe'}
of them'.
this
holds
more
clearly
the shelter,
finds
sup-
correspond to them
hypothesis
the
make no mention
cealed behind
use
to
(or,
ties)
with
then,
fortune,
Translator.\
TWO
CHURCH
We
may
we
what
from
recall
it
is
know
of
possible to distinguish
There
development.
their
very
are
lines
sorts
made
unhomoge-
of individuals, and
artificial
ones, requiring
and
But
structure.
explained
highly
we
should
too
leaderless
like
which
to
distinction
given
groups
with
have
primitive
definite
yet
to
the
attention;
little
which
reasons
for
ones
organised
have
authorities
I
refer
to
that
not
choose
our
point
organised,
a
of
relatively
departure, but
lasting
and
upon
rather
And,
in
shall
group formation as
shall
artificial
be
between
in
groups
fleeting
the
begin with
groups.
highly
The most
42
the Analysis of
tJie
Ego
interesting
A
a
is,
them from
is
enter
no
such
We
are
that
certain
other
not consulted,
is
whether he wants to
to
attempt
leaving
at
it
is
groups
in
the
church
however
in
(and
different
same
the
group
depends upon
then both
more concealed
far
which
that
the
illusion
Catholic
with
this
illusion;
those
from
as
as
two may be
in
in
an
other
Church
who
an
in
type)
in
are protected
we may
as
Commander-in-Chief
the
are
manner
Church
respects, the
head
enquire
to
interest
Catholic
army,
which
facts,
organised
In
present
it.
only
dissolution
equal
if
Christ,
loves
it
all
in
an army
the individuals
love.
Everything
were to be dropped,
love
alterations in
associations
cases,
highly
in
as
any
our
outside
quite
is
these
its
choice,
to prevent
why
and to check
a rule a person
group;
groups, that
artificial
employed
is
ment,
the
As
given
usually
It
force
disinteerating
structure.
rheir
or
external
certain
them
dissolve,
to.
Christ:
so
far
This equal
'Inasmuch
as
ye have done
my
to
the
individual
in
the
relation
upon
the
eveiyone
in
that
the
and
is
equal,
his
love.
family
themselves
is
love
no
doubt
It
is
and
Christ
the
tie
has
good
father
who
reason
army
built
is,
army.
an
loves
they
are
of his
officer
it
his
brothers
is,
unites
cause
The
like
and
from
the
Church
of such groups.
tie
holds
is
for that
series
each
the
of
Commander-in-Chief
soldiers equally,
structurally
differs
up of a
as
all
The
call
them. There
for
which
the
also
is
believers
that
Christ,
in
which
Christ
that
Christ
that
with
individual
of
through
runs
invoked,
is
made
love
this
brothers
the
character
their
is
are
that
from
derived
very
the
for
similarity
through
demands
the
are
stands
he
elder brother;
democratic
Church,
share
All
He
unto me.'
it
of these
least
kind
of a
individual
Christ's.
the
members
surrogate.
father
it
ye have done
brethren,
Army 43
Tiijo Artificial
in
The
being
Every captain
company,
of
his
and so
section.
is
It
every non-commissioned
is
true
in
that
similar
it
for
does not play the same part in it economically;
more knowledge and care about individuals may be
and
Gro2ip Psychology
44
to Christ than to a
attributed
Ego
human Commander-in-
Chief.'
It
be noticed that
to
is
An
of the
in
these two
bound by
artificial
libidinaP
ties
on
libidinal [see
ground
is
that
no
place
it
for
such ideas as
importance
that
in
simple
one;
is
for
the
tie,
upon
the
possibility
of a
We
ideas
Caesar,
like
are
not indis-
shall presently
touch
being a protest of the individual against the part he was exin the army; and according to tlie communication
of E. Simmel {Kriegsnetirosen unci Psychisches Trauma\ Munich,
as
pected to play
""
191 8),
considered as foremost
the
importance
of the
among
men by
libido's
may be
their superiors
disease.
If
had been
dent's
as
an
German
believed
in
leaders.
and
the
in-Chief)
and
members
of the
on
described
resei'ved
psychologically
for
now upon
authorities
for not
mild
leader
own
while our
are
ties
thev
are
But we
reproach
be
to
must
questions
be
ven-
shall
the
against
in
psychology
the
choice
of
the
of
the
object
first
for
investigation
has
position.
would
It
two
importance of the
group,
and how
these
subsequent enquiry.
ture even
other
the
to
these
to each other,
related
hand
How
group.
45
Commander-
the
(Christ,
other
the
Army
the
appear as
we were on
though
phenomenon
lack
of freedom in
bound
Psychology
group.
the
each
If
individual's
individual
is
in
we
tie,
Group
of
no
shall find
difficulty
to that
attributing
in
been observed
A
a group
to
same
in
be found
in
the
in
military
studied
group
'libidinal' is
to avoid
dinous'.
the
of
that
effect,
that
phenomenon
kind
highly-coloured
Translator.^
it,
is
also
which
arises
becomes
the
connotation
in
of panic,
groups.
accordingly introduced in
essence of
the
lies
best
a
in his personality.
to the
hint
panic
disintegrated.
translation
of
the
in
English
is
if
Its
order
'libi-
46
are
characteristics
by
each
individual
The mutual
longer
only
listened
[Angst]
objection
the
point, again,
is
dread
set
is
the
for
and
own
rest.
At this
be made
free.
naturally
way round;
his
and a gigantic
exist,
w^ill
given
to,
on
solicitous
have ceased to
ties
and senseless
it
is
orders
the
of
account,
that
none
any
are
superiors
that
that
Ego
the
and
ties
feelings
all
consideration
of
made
24)
(p.
But
emphasis.
of explanation
so
gigantic.
quite
The
a victim
equally
great
success;
it
is
panic
to
the
of
If
breaks
out
an individual
only
on
his
in
own
may
very
upon
why
is
made
the
of
previously
danger
essence
the
danger
most
have
faced
complete
with
of panic
danger that
the
that
threatens,
trivial
it
and
occasions.
account,
he
bears witness
method
The very
inadequate.
greatness
greater
or
so
lays
typical
by con-
emotion
upon which he
become
as
here
is
panic)
of
intensification
('primary induction')
tagion
much
of that
for others.
danger seem
ties,
small
in
so
which have
to him,
have
Two
ceased to
may
that he
is
surely think
by himself
in
facing
The
greater.
it
47
fact
is,
it
Now
exist.
the danger, he
in
that the
libidinal
owing to dread
and
manner,
a justifiable
of
ties
the
in
group
the
destroyed
are
danger can be
of the
face
and reacts to
contrary view
the
refuted.
The contention
ed
to
(contagion)
is
not
the danger
is
fulfilled,
theatre
or
when a
for instance,
place
instructive case
of
ties
by these
that
when
the
which
breaks out
fire
amusement.
is
entirely
conditions
increas-
induction
of
in
is
remarks.
when
group
that dread in a
But the
in
really
mentioned above,
in
be
not to
often
expected
bevond a
degree that
the
usage
of
the
It
is
word
and unambiguously
Sometimes it is used to describe any collective dread, sometimes even dread in an individual
when it exceeds all bounds, and often the name
seems to be reserved for cases in which the outbreak
'
panic
'
should be clearly
deter-
mined.
of dread
is
not warranted
by the
occasion.
If
we
48
word
the
take
dread,
we can
Dread
in
'
panic
the Analysis of
the
in
'
establish
sense
Ego
tJie
of
collective
far-reaching
analogy.
provoked
by the
greatness of a danger or by the cessation of emoan
individual
is
either
is
the
of
case
neurotic
common danger
of the
either
arises
dread. ^
owing
In
to
latter case
is
the
and the
just
an increase
analogous
to that
together;
of neurotic
dread.^
['Cathexis',
German word
in the
from
the
^Besetzung' has
Greek
become
'Katexcu',
'I
occupy'.
The
of fundamental importance
Any attempt
at a short
is
likely to
'
XXV,
Translator?^
Lecture
^
fantastic
XXV. George
Compare Bela
Two
Groups :
Artificial
Anyone who,
a
'
panic
one
as
group mind
'
the
this
most
manifestations.
striking
(1.
plainest
Army
49
describes
c),
of
functions
the
arrives
McDougall
like
of
tJie
itself
It
one of
in
its
impossible
is
to
involves
it
cessation
of
all
members
the
feelings
con-
of
much
very
of Hebbel's
soldier
as
it
play
out:
cries
and thereupon
all
is
and Holofernes. A
'The general has lost his head!'
though the
mutual
ties
some sense
the
the
flask
The
birth
outbreak of
same;
the
leader.
Bologna
same time
The group
when its top
dissolution of a
easy to observe.
my
on
brings
the
or other,
danger remains
as a rule, at the
appear,
The
about him,
of misgivings
panic,
Nestroy's parody
in
about Judith
their
represented
vanishes
is
in
broken
religious
the
as
with
tie
dust,
dis-
like
off.
group
not
is
so
came
into
mended by
When
It
the
Bishop
Was Dark.
of
It
London,
gave a
with
clever and,
and
its
consequences.
The
the
novel,
title
as
it
a possi-
which
is
50
Ego
present
day,
how
tells
and of
Christian
sepulchre
faith
be
to
an inscription,
is
mathaea
confesses
removed
The
spot.
this
body
after
its
reasons
this
European
in
all
civilisation
this
of Ari-
he
piety
grave
its
of
means disposed
of
from
of Christ
resurrection
by
In
which Joseph
for
for
Jerusalem.
in
in
that
the
arranging
in
discovered
sepulchre
secretly
succeed
is
it
his
and the
of,
a convulsion
when
group
is
here supposed
is
to
overtake
Instead of
ruthless
it
make
other people
and
the
religious
is
towards
owing to
they
wanting.
impulses
hostile
had
disso-
previously
been
kingdom ot
Christ those people who do not belong to the com-
unable
to
But
do.^
even
during
the
he does not
^
Compare
abolition
P.
love,
the
stand
explanation of similar
of the paternal
Federn's
Verlag, 1919.
Die
outside this
vaterlose
authority
of the
Gesellschaft.
tie.
Therefore
phenomena
sovereig^n
Vienna,
whom
after the
given
in
Anzengruber-
Two
even
a religion,
if
it
the
itself
calls
of love,
religion
same way
this
whom
embraces;
it
of love
religion
while
we ought
personally,
not
in this respect.
itself
turies,
we can
be found
them.
relicrious
one
same
the
libidinal
and
in
scientific
of
it
are unbelieving
off psychologically
no longer
intolerance
cruel
as
former
in
The cause
so
which
takes
tie
the
doing
ties
is
cen-
rather
socialistic
-,
then
depend
the
place
tie
seems
there
Wars
find
another group
succeeding
we may
who
better
human manners.
in
and the
If
are natural
it
a softening in
feelings
much
to-day that
so violent and
shows
to
so
If
intolerance
to
to
difficult
those
all
and
cruelty
However
for
and
Religion;
opinions
could
if
the
differences
of
to
be
the
be
the
age of
between
the
same
repeated with
new
motivation.
this
will
upon
result
would again be
VI
We
have
hitherto
and
have
found
emotional
seems
One
ties.
(at
two
considered
they
that
all
groups
artificial
dominated by two
are
more of
members of
Now much
described
have to
in
the group.
start
We
to
form
in
or less stable,
to
the
fact that a
mere
in
it;
but
we
should
psychological
become prominent.
our attention
should
is
easily
be examined and
tendency
to
collection of people
ties
remains
else
We
group
may
very
more
and to study
We
should above
all
distinction
53
may
leaders
whether
not be
not be the
an idea,
others
the
in
substituted
more
to
(a state of things
their
invisible
or
in
might
varieties
abstraction,
w'ould
also,
the
really
the
figure
of what
and interesting
arise
The
person
same
or
institution
might
and might
unifying way,
particular
just
in
as
might be more
again,
secondary leader,
call
might
the
completely embodied
less
we
not
This
substitute.
ten-
in
may
share,
head,
common
may
an abstraction,
leader
the
for
as
ties
the
call
in
up the
positive attachment.
also arise
indispensable to
operate
whether a leader
essence
of a group
been
questions,
these
all
with
dealt
Group Psychology,
interest
that
will
in
part
not
in
succeed
the
in
literature
of
diverting our
confront
our attention
us
in
will first
And
be attracted by a consideration
in
way
54
to
proof that
libidinal
ties
are
Ego
what characterize
a group.
men
in general.
of
simile
the
approach to
his neighbour.^
The evidence
which
for
lasts
relations
some time
between
marriage,
and
parents
children^ leaves
have
first
less
disguised
friendship, the
hostility,
be eliminated by repression.
to
the
in
common
wrangles
which
This
is
between
close
'A
company
together
one
of
cold
porcunines
winter's
crowded
day
so
very
themselves
as
to
profit^
by one
another's
death.
them to separate again. And now, when the need for warmth
brought them nearer together again, the second evil arose once
more. So that they were driven backwards and forwards from
one trouble to the other, until they had discovered a mean
distance at which they could most tolerably exist.' {Parerga und
Paralipomena, II. Teil, XXXI., 'Gleichnisse und Parabeln'.)
^
mother
Perhaps
to
her
which
is
based upon
is
narcissism,
reinforced
by
is
not
a rudimentary
Fu7-ther Problems
at
his
come
superior.
The same
together
in
thinks
than
is
the
the
most jealous
down upon
looks
one
Englishman casts
the
better
every
rival;
another
the South
of
little
keep
races
related
or
to
each of
marriage,
two
time
birth
other.
other's
Every
units.
superior
itself
when men
thing happens
become connected by
families
them
larger
55
ever}'^
Closely
arm's
at
canton
length;
kind
upon
of aspersion
We
should
such
lead
the
as
Ar}'an
almost
people
Gallic
the
for
an
to
Semite,
repugnance,
insuperable
feel
for the
German, the
for the
coloured.
When
who
of
hostility
this
occasions
precisely
undisguised
towards
we
may
of the
rence
as ambivalence
fact,
conflicts
of
such
intimate
relations.
and
the
interest
aversions
whom
which
of
the
hi
they have
expression
which
people
to
self-love
do
of
individual,
of
it
people
is
in what
by means of the
the
a manner,
strangers with
recognize
describe
against
for
antipathies
feel
narcissism.
in
we
explain
numerous
arise
we
and
feeling;
probably
directed
is
any
divergence
from
his
own
particular
56
development
of
lines
and a demand
why such
takable
involved
We
details
that
in
them
of
criticism
do not know
sensitiveness
these
just
Ego
of differentiation;
whole
this
but
connection
it
unmis-
is
men
give
is
of which
source
the
tempted
is
tem-
of
and
group,
in
So long
group.
it
as a
group
extends, individuals
with them,
Such a
them.
to
and have no
be produced by one
Love for
with other people.
libidinal
tie
only
oneself
for
towards
factor,
feeling of aversion
(1920)
{Beyond
the
Pleasure
Principle,
International
Psycho-
Analytical
instincts
of
life
as the purest
in
without any
itself,
of libido,
toleration
them.
interest
57
may be met by
This objection
no
nevertheless
effected
way,
this
in
of
limitation
lasting
since
does not
tolerance
this
is
persist
importance
supposed,
of the
less
is
libidinal
are
ties
might be
than
for
collaboration
discussion
cases of
in
formed be-
recrularlv
relation
between them
merely profitable.
as
relations
social
research
analytic
solidify
beyond what
to a point
in
the
course of the
The
libido
development
props
itself
upon
first
And
process.
whole,
the
just
civilizing
change
both
from
of
the
the
in
as
in
factor
obligations which
are
fond
of,
and
homosexual love
work
in
common.
it
love
individuals,
in
the
egoism to
sexual
who have
a share in that
development of mankind as a
love
sense
altruism.
for
involves
alone
that
And
it
brings
this
women, with
of sparing
as
acts
is
all
true
the
what women
other men,
and
Gro2ip Psychology
58
therefore
If
subject
to
that
formation
self-love
narcissistic
question as
w^hich
exist
of neuroses
is
consists
in
new kind
ties
Ego
them,
group
among
groups
in
limitations
is
of libidinal
the
the pressing
to
groups.
in
we have
the
In
ties
psycho-analytic study
hitherto
still
We
that
within
version
and
Now^ we
account.
the
of
the
from
them
as
recognized
upon
the
our
more
closely
attention
in
love,
in
the
its
degrees
that
encroachment
being
less
energy
observed
already
described
have
have
[Objektbesetzting]
have
their original
aims,
on
they
ego.
firm
to
sexual
aim.
of being
involve
We
these
shall
in
di-
We
love,
certain
now
turn
phenomena of
expectation of finding in
emotional
tie
with
other
people,
As
that
a matter of fact
there
ties,
the
do
exist
so-called
we
learn
or
59
whether we
from psycho-analysis
other mechanisms
identifications^
for
emotional
insufficiently-known
processes
which
will
subject of
for
us
VII
IDENTIFICATION
Identification
known
is
expression of an emotional
earliest
person.
plays
It
interest
in his
and be
like
part
Oedipus complex.
may
psycho-analysis
to
with
the
another
in
boy
he would
little
father;
tie
as
will
exhibit a special
like to
grow
like
him
We
males
general);
in
masculine.
complex,
At
towards
attitude
It
for
the
fits
which
on
it
is
in
very
it
(and
towards
contrary
typically
with
Oedipus
father
his
the
well
the
same time
to
the
'I
lean
or a
little
anaclitic
later, the
type
\Anlehnungstypus\}
up
against'.
In
the
first
';
He
then
Identification
two psychologically
therefore,
exhibits,
sexual
straightfor\vard
identification
by
ties:
towards
object-cathexis
The two
subsist side
distinct
towards
his
his father.
consequence
In
oi
come
they
life
complex
Oedipus
The
way
together
little
with
identical
to
his
that
mother.
his
on a
and
last;
from
originates
boy notices
at
his
His
confluence.
their
stands
father
identification
as
Identification,
well.
very
first;
it
in
his
with
his
and becomes
hostile colouring
mother
normal
the
can
regard
in
in
turn
fact,
is
into
an
someone's removal.
the
in
first
behaves
like
derivative
of
which the
assimilated
as such.
It
object
we
that
by eating and
The
cannibal, as
is
we know,
way
is
annihilated
has remained at
self-preservative
sexual object
this
path;
is
that
is,
The
when he choses
instincts.
discussion of the
anaclitic
and
when
it
follows
narcissistic
t^^es
of
object-
Translator?^
62
this
standpoint;
and
enemies
Ego
only
people
for his
whom
of
he
is
fond.^
the
that
that
the
father
an
attitude,
is
sight of.
object
and
inverted,
from
which
the
in that
directly
sexual
fication with
an object
may happen
instincts
It
becomes
complex
Oedipus
the
with the
tie
easy to
is
between
an
state
identification
in
the
choice of the
father as an object.
one's father
second
he
is
to
what
that
distinction,
taches
is
the
The former
is
is,
In the
like to be,
one would
like
and
father
to
first
and
or
therefore
to
the
case
in
the
The
have.
subject
the
tie
at-
It is
much more
^
See Drei Abhandhmgen znr Sexualtheorie, and Abraham's
^Untersuchungen iiber die friiheste pragenitale Entwicklungs-
stufe
1916, Bd. rV; also included in his Klinische Beitrdge zzir Psycho-
analyse
1921).
(Internationale
psychoanalytische
Bibliothek.
Nr.
10,
IdentiJi.catio7i
difiicult
the
distinction.
identification
endeavours
of
tion
ego
'
model
Let us disentangle
we
only
see
that
to
identification
occurs
it
its
Supposing that a
keep to her
will
as
symptom from
of a neurotic
complicated connections.
(and
can
'.
structure
the
We
as a
63
for the
in
rather
girl
little
develops
present)
the
the
from
a
the
hostile
mother's
object
a
love
of
You
are
that
in
on
the
girl's
and
the
symptom
desire
place,
case
signifies
it
take
her
expresses
her
part to
and
towards
her
father,
under
the
influence
of
take
mother's
realisation,
guilt,
'
Oedipus complex;
her
desire
wanted
anyhow
to
be your
to
as
far
the
as
her
about
brings
mother,
and
pain
goes'.
sense
of
place:
now
3^ou
This
is
complete
who
'
is
loved
Bruchstiick
father's
(so,
einer
cough);
in
\Klei7ie Schriften
for
instance,
Hysterieanalyse'^
that
case
we can
Dora
in
the
imitated
her
only
describe
64
the
appeai'ed
by saying
things
of
state
instead
oj
and
object-choice,
identification
that
We
that
Ego
object-
have heard
is
often happens
emotional
tie;
ditions
in
where there
are
dominant,
sumes the
cases
ego, that
the person
who
loved.
is
object-choice
the
who
that
the
is
must
It
also
is
us
strike
partial
person
who
portant
its
is
case
of
is
being
that
and
in
both
extremely
trait
from the
frequent
and im-
object.
third
particularly
symptom
identification leaves
who
as-
noticeable
It is
limited
is
is,
is
identification
There
is,
is
unconscious
the
of
it
formation,
in
which
the
copied
Sup-
secretly
she
that
some
in
reacts
to
of her friends
we
it
with
fit
of hysterics;
it
will
then
contract
fit,
as
say,
Identification
situation.
The
other
would
girls
65
have a secret
to
like
they
guilt
accept
also
would be wrong
S3^mptom
out
sympathy
only
this
is
pain
the
involved
in
It
it.
to
of
arises
out
of the
proved by the
fact
and
identification,
sympathy
pre-existing
less
usually exists
between
upon
one
readiness
point
for
constructed
of
the
example
our
and,
point,
the
one
w'ith
upon
an identification
pathogenic situation,
symptom which
analogy
significant
in
this
assumed than
emotion;
on
be
to
is
is
another
similar
thereupon
is
ego
One
on to the
produced.
has
The
What we have
may be summarised
is
follows.
secondly, in a regressive
way
as
introjection
it
may
of the object
it
into
First,
tie
identification
with an object;
becomes a substitute
were by means of the
it
the
ego;
and
thirdly,
object
of the
66
this
common
quality
successful
become, and
We
more
the
is,
identification
partial
new
it
may
Ego
may
this
thus repre-
tie.
mutual
tie
the
are
far
emotional
this
psychology
calls
'
empathy [Einfiikhing]
our
to our
here
ourselves
shall
tional
side
limit
Psycho-analytic
psychoses,
tification
us
to
immediately
shall leave
in
in
has
already
exhibit
to
detail
as
shall
material
on one
problems of
difficult
been able
also
emo-
life.
vv'hich
more
comprehensible.
cases
these
the immediate
and
research,
has
of what
in
the
to
effects of identification,
its
and which
'
understanding
ego
inherently foreign
we
identi-
fication,
are not
two
treat
for
iden-
our
of
further
consideration.
The
genesis of male
cases
class
of
been
unusually long
mother
in
the
is
as
sense
homosexuality
young
intensely
fixated
follows.
and
of
in
the
large
man
upon
Oedipus complex.
has
his
But
67
Identification
for
end of
after the
at last,
exchanging
mother
his
some
for
object.
for him,
mother,
his
for
which
objects
sexual
other
young man
the
but
he transforms himself
with her;
looks
his
identifies himself
into
can
and no.v
her,
replace
and which
as one likes,
ation
of
is
its
its
ample
important
is
and the
force
transformation.
is
may be made
This
a frequent process,
cranic
ego
his
motives
scale;
it
the or-
of the
sudden
about
striking thing
features
to
as
this
identific-
sexual
its
one
in
character
the
unconscious
is
question
discussion.
Identification
nounced or
lost
this
to
directly
outside
process
obser\'ed
of the
in
ago an obser^^ation of
small
this
only
it,
in
present
the
with an object
is
whether
preser\'ed
as a substitute for
renounced
is
of being
or in the sense
that
re-
is
introjection of
may sometimes be
children.
sort
was published
Psychoanalyse.
time
short
kitten
the
in
child
declared
the kitten,
and
S*
68
on
Another
such
an
instance
which
affection
remarkable of
nal
of
of these cases
of
the
of melan-
analysis
among
most
the
its
leading characteristic
a cruel self-depreciation
is
combined with
introjection
the
counts
of a loved object.
loss
etc.^
fours,
all
Ego
and
relentless self-criticism
of the ego
bitter self-
The
is
here
unmistakably clear.
which
may be
two pieces,
the
is
us
either.
Marcuszewicz
Kindern.
'
fallen
dis-
into
our later
ego divided,
introjection
known
for
by
show us something
of importance
They show us
cussions.
also
It
lost
cruelly
is
object.
not un-
'Beitrag
Internationale
so
the
zum
Zeiischrifi
Bd. VI.
^
191 8.]
69
Identification
facultv
critical
in
\l7tstanz\-
On
the
some such
that
may cut
ego and come into
which
ego
called
'ego
the
it
we have
ascribed
We
influence in repression.
to
the
ego found
its
self-sufficiency;
that
be able
which has been
rise to;
find
to
\^Instanz'
instance'
was
like
its
'instance'
origin
in
cholie
'.
'Zur Einfiihrung
out
des
may
itself,
in
the ego
of the
ego.
in
become
It is
'court
now used
or functions.
Narzissmus',
patent,
the influence of
the phrase
we
and
so that a man,
ego
faculty has
of this
the
childish
ego
the
satisfaction
differentiated
In delusions of observation, as
the disintegration
upon
nevertheless
is
it
gathers up
gradually
environment makes
ideal
which the
in
it
moral
ot the
when he cannot be
have
the
narcissism
original
We
it.
self-observation,
it
in
ideal',
to
driven to
with
conflict
unjusti-
develops
faculty
off
itself
conscience,
heir
we have been
previous occasions
the hypothesis^
our
towards
attitude
critical
the ego,
fiably.
which even
of
first
in the sense
Translator.]
yo
and above
superior powers,
all
Ego
But we
of parents.^
between
this
from
able
many
one individual to
real
ego
very vari-
another,
is
the
within
ego does
But
we can employ
before
understanding the
material
this
for
organisation of groups,
libidinal
other
we
examples of the
We
we have
and
that
we have consequently
left
more fundamental and comprehensive psychological analysis would have to inter\'ene at this point.
A path leads from identification by way of imitation to empathy,
that is, to the comprehension of the mechanism by means of
formations untouched.
far
Robertson Smith
recognition of a
which
lie
at
the
root
common
of
clan feeling,
substance \J\inship
led
upon the
and Marriage,
1885),
common.
it
constructed in Totem
und Tabu.
in
human
family which
VIII
BEING
Even
in
true
name
some
of
but
love;
this
love
'
a whole scale
one
In
than
Thus
many
it
remains
gives
the
kinds of emotional
true,
actual
doubt
feels
it
and so
love,
whether
hints
at
phenomena of love. We
making the same discovery
m.ore
of language
reality.
great
we
then
real,
is
of
a
to
which
usage
the
kind
love
'
relationship
as
caprices
its
to
IN
class
of cases
shall
have no
difficulty in
empirically.
being
love
in
is
nothing
object-cathexis
instincts
cathexis
been reached;
love.
But,
this
as
is
what
we know,
remains so simple.
It
is
called
common,
the libidinal
was possible
this
aim has
sensual
situation rarel}'
to calculate with
certainty
upon the
revival of the
expired;
and
this
just
first
72
for
'
loving
it
'
in
as well.
To
this
life
of man. In his
first
five
old,
one or other of
his
love
his
in
then
greater
sets
number
in
this
demand
compels
of these
and
him
infantile
to
all
of
for satisfaction
The
object.
is
object for
first
parents,
his
is
phase,
repression
renounce the
sexual
aims,
and
to
his
his
parents,
but
The
child
by
instincts
still
remains
which
tied
must be
to
de-
feels
henceforward towards
known
remain more or
It
is
well
sensual
'
strongly preserved
'
tendencies
in
the
un-
At puberty,
as
we know,
there set
in
new and
In
Cf.
I.e.
Being
of
sensual
in
We
two
the
aspects
kind
this
show
will
women whom he
excite him
thinks
however,
emotional
'
by a picture
movements in
in idealising.
sentimental
women whom
man
for
who do
not
only be
will
he does not
in
'
love
More
often,
bringing
about
even despises.^
adolescent succeeds
of
enthusiasm
but
and he
activities,
of or
little
the
tender
certain
deeply respects
to sexual
but
which
of
'
such delight
take
literature
from the
current,
73
relation
interaction
inhibited
is
in
love,
in
desire,
sexual
his
object
uninhibited
of
their
aim.
and
The depth
contrasted
as
his
characterised by the
instincts
with
may be measured by
and
earthly love,
is
the
of
instincts
which anyone
to
purely
his
size
sensual
of the
share
the
we
of sexual
object enjoys
its
who
time when
of people
are not
at a
it
'
itself
loved,
more
or than
its
If
own were
the sensual
74
Ego
are
charm.
the
us
object
own
is
is
to
of
But
idealisation.
find
our
way
being treated
ego, so that
amount of
It
that
is
for
judgement
falsifies
when we
the
are
in
in
many forms
in
ego,
this
love
it
as our
love a considerable
on to the object.
some unattained
on account of the
perfections
own
We
it
see that
same way
this
makes
We
about.
in
even obvious,
this
in
like to
for
our
procure
satisfying our
narcissism.
If
love
the
sexual
increase
even
over-estimation
in
The
becomes still more unmistakable.
tendencies whose trend is towards directly sexual
satisfaction may now be pushed back entirely, as
regularly happens, for instance, with the young man's
sentimental passion; the ego becomes more and more
unassuming and modest, and the object more and more
the
picture
until
at
last
it
gets possession
as
has,
so
speak,
to
humilitv, of the
occur
injury
result
are
with this
and
self-
as
claims they
sensual
of the
be
cannot
easily
satisfied;
is
of
spite
in
each
'
and of
supremacy.
and
in
of
Traits
ego.
intensified,
onl}^
especially
evervthing
the
This happens
reduction
The object
of narcissism,
case
withdrawal
solitary
in
unhappy
is
they
of the
remain
every
in
extreme case
consumed
limitation
self-sacrifice
consequence.
natural
thus
whose
75
devotion
'
of the
and
does
object
asks
is
for
silent;
is
The
right
and
blameless.
the
for
in
criticism
is
is
whole situation
TJie
The
remorselessness
formula:
done
has
taken
the place of
in
the
e<^o
ideal.
It
is
now
identification
in
love as
tion,
may be
hi the
itself
76
second case
to the
it
object,
impoverished,
is
however,
plain,
an
of
illusion
that
In the
it.
has surrendered
it
its
contradistinctions
erishment
or
enrichment;
even
is
it
no
have
that
possible
meet
the
essence
of
the
object
identification
then
is
makes a
the
set
ego
at
given
the
presents
up?
Can
object retained?
cussion
of this
case
of
before
identification
dawn on
is
it
is
by the
been
has
with the
we embark upon
real
object
object-cathexis
be no
embraces the
the
model of
it
that
there
case
hyper-cathexis of
Is
itself.
And
other
expense.
ego's
already be beginning to
alternative
to
the
In
is
presupposes
tification
matter.
itself.
calculated
the
In
and there
and
difficulty
better
object.
retained,
the
up again
partial
lost
perhaps
is
to
love as a state
in
real
no question of impov-
is
Another
itself
most
this
Economically there
it
introjected
existence.
in
'
it
important constituent.
it
has
it
as Ferenczi expresses
itself,
Ego
a dis-
perception
may
put
From
only
Being
in
being
in
short
step.
love
The
to
h3^pnosis
respects
yj
is
evidently
in
the
There
is
the
criticism,
loved object.
There
own
initiative;
the
is
has
hypnosis,
to
explain being
the other
so
that
in
way round.
is
would be more
it
love
It
is
The
to the point
is
iind
no attention
tiiat
is
ideal.
The
fact
way whatever
that we omitted
he
may
to
No wonder
vouched
discharges
for
the
by the mental
for real
faculty
if
its
reality
which ordinarily
of tendencies which
are unin-
the
relation
is
the
devotion
of
someone
The hypnotic
in
love
to
an
^
Cf.
'Metapsychologische Erganzung zur Traumlehre.
Kleine Schriften zur Neurosenlehre, Vierte Folge, 1918.
78
whereas
satisfaction
is
love
in
as a possible
aim
some
at
relation
not
good object
formation, because
with
cal
(if
is
later time.
say that
also
the expression
group
one element
isolates
the
of the individual to
for us
just as
by the absence
respect
It
it
is
identi-
is
it
of the
fabric
the
behaviour
Hypnosis
leader.
number,
Hypnosis
for
is
it.
it
it
permis-
is
sible)
is
kind of
this
background
in the
of being
case
the
in
Ego
distin-
is
this limitation of
In this
it
is
it
is
precisely those
fact
But
can
this
which
are
extraordinary
uninhibited
reduction
in
their
through
is
the
with
it
satisfied;
first
it
to
an
discharge
of
attained.
It
that
itself
is,
is
be able
to last,
it
must from
such,
must
for
the
is
suffer
aims
undergo a transformation of
this
-or
kind.
Being
in
79
constitution
not
that
of
deal
in
which
features
of being
state
in
is
power
power
and helpless
which
may
afford
The manner
which
resist
makes
libido
is
it
is
realised in
the
possible
which
w^hen there
it
transition
produced and
its
relation-
It
others
while
factor
in
un-
still
of
purity
it,
of the
attitudes
is
is
without
is
animals.
it
exhibits.
someone
in
known which
occurs
to
ship
which
in
still
It
the
it
with
are
with
love
There
directly
great
as
it
were
if it
given
some
exhibits
itself
it
libidinal
other
in
may show
fact
that
resistance.
in
But
hypnosis as
this
is
it
only
game,
situation of far
But
in
to
what
is
the
some
happening
life.
preceding discussions
give
to
usually practised
that
more importance
after the
a position
an
may be due
the
formula
for
we
the
are quite
libidinal
8o
Gi'oup Psychology
and
Ego
we have
organisation
of an
individual.
7LU77iber
the
'
same
primary group of
this
kind
is
object
Object
Outer
Object
IX
We
that
illusion
we have
formula.
It
recollection that
all
we have
realty
shift
And
now
It
we
which
observe
in
groups
are
pendence and
in
the reactions of
speak,
look
to
at
it
Some
this.
ability,
for
initiative in their
the
level
of
its
the
in
to
lack of indesimilarity
a group shows us
features
But
if
we
more than
limit
sufficient
members, the
of group
as a whole,
moderation
every
all
quite
ties
the incapacity
inclination to
exceed
work
6
it
and
Groiip Psychology
82
off
completely
we
which
features,
in
so
find
^these
common
and
we
groups
A regression
we have
heard,
in
organized
separate
individual's
lectual
it
or children.
are not
an essential characteristic of
groups, while, as
artificial
We
an
among savages
in particular
is
similar
picture of a regression
of this sort
and
impressively described in
Ego
too
are
act
v/eak
to
come
anything by
to
reinforced
way
in
through
being
repeated
in
other
the
reminded of
intel-
they
till
similar
We
are
of depen-
how
little
ruled
exhibit
by those
of
how much
every individual
themselves
istics, class
in
admit that
becomes a greater
it
is
mind which
of suggestion
we
it,
originality
riddle
The
influence
for us
when
unfairly
the background.
much
The Herd
83
encouragement to modesty, we
After this
be
Instinct
one
be found
to
is
that
it
thoughtful
concerning which
instinct,
my
Such
book
only regret
set loose
described as occurring
as in other species
gariousness
is
an analogy
is
were a continuation of
theory
libido
inclination,
it
human
innate in
of animals.
to
it.
are
that
in
Cgregariousness'), which
the
Trotter's
in
were
it
shall
instinct
beings just
and as
multicellularity
From
the standpoint of
is
and which
libido,
felt
'
'
by
small
children
good
as
anxiously
anything
W.
that
is
Trotter:
from
separation
as
avoided.
it,
and
new
or
Instincts
unusual.
of
the
be an ex-
to
Herd
is
therefore
awa}^
The herd
in Peace
from
instinct
and War.
See
my
84
would appear to be
'which cannot be
Trotter
something
the
as
primary
as
nutrition,
of sex,
Ego
something
primary,
up'.
split
gives
considers
which he
of instincts
list
those
of
self-preserv^ation,
The
The
last
of
often
feelings of
comes into opposition with the others.
guilt and of duty are the peculiar possessions of a
the
shown
has
repressive
exist
to
which
forces
the
in
psycho-analysis
ego,
comes up
Speech owes
against
fication
importance to
its
understanding
the
in
of the
psycho-anal3tic
in
herd,
individuals
its
and upon
with
treatment.
one
the
identi-
another
largely
it
rests.
While Le Bon
transient
the
Trotter
associations.
interest
principally
is
its
.T:o>aTiK6v,
passes his
it
instinct
to
back to
superfluous as far as he
ation
of
is
instinct,
and he
under
for
he
the herd
life,
in
familiar
is
which he
refers,
at
tracing
suggestibility
is
fortunately
concerned;
is
an explan-
it
Herd
TJie
converse proposition
herd
of
the
far
more
Instinct
85
suggestibility
would seem to
^that
me
instinct
light
a derivative
is
throw
to
on the subject.
account
little
we
while
that
incline
the leader
is
room
at
along
with
need
the
rather
opposite judgement,
the
instinct leaves
no
he
merely thrown
in
leader;
path
leads
from
is
almost by chance;
herd,
Trotter's
mined psychologically
all
if
The herd
no
for
at
group,
in
takes
the
the
But besides
made
part
leader's
to
it
disregarded.
for
all
that
too,
of
is
it
open
is
is
this
is
follows,
the
to
instinct
without a herdsman.
can be under-
exposition
that
it
to
say,
it
be
can
it
is
primary
not
in
the
is
same
genesis
is
of
the
herd
The
instinct.
dread which
left
alone,
is
and
other interpretation.
The dread
more
readily an-
it
is
does
not
}et
know how
to
deal
with
in
any way
86
Ego
of the
'
Something
children.
nursery containing
like
the
younger
like
to
it
and
put
The
one.
all
but
that
all,
in
does so as a reaction
come
later)
sibility
of
it
is
the
is
fact
certainly
of
it
that
keep
to
aside,
all
this
its
child
in
in
maintaining
itself,
would
and to rob
of
face
child
jealously
parents,
in
just the
damaging
it
elder
successor
its
(like
of
first
in
initial
privileges;
be observed
to the
grows up
it
many
to
is
hostile
its
attitude
without
itself
with
treatment for
all.
is
be the favourite
See the
We
all
know how
remarks
at
XXV.
one cannot
all
upon Dread
If
in
The Herd
shall
be the
histinct
87
the replac-
ing
We
women and
of the troop of
in
an
girls,
be easy
certainty
of the
rest;
but,
in
for
face
consequent impossibility of
their
love,
out one
they renounce
another's
all
hair,
them
of
his
in
love
who crowd
way,
sentimental
enthusiastically
would
performance.
It
and,
it,
instead of pulling
the}^
their
common
actions,
have
a share
of his
have
succeeded
When,
the instincts
is
as
is
usual,
rivals,
themselves
identifying
by means of a
another
object.
in
Originally
locks.
similar
love
to
for
with
the
they
one
same
we need
not be surprised
obvious,
is
Hfe prevent
What
of
if
the actual
appears later on
Gemeifigeist^
esprit
its
society
in
de corps
'group
in
the shape
spirit',
was
etc.,
originally
88
envy.
means
Social justice
so
ask
root
what
us
This
to
to
thing,
demand
do without them
may
not be able
equality
for
is
in
the
syphilitic 's
the
It
dread
people,
understand.
other
poor
these
same
the
unexpectedly
itself
of infecting
may have
many
ourselves
of social
taught
is
them.
for
reveals
himself forward,
we deny
that
others
that
as well, or,
to
Ego
every one
things
put
to
the
wretches
corresponds
to
their
violent
on
infection
alone
to
other
people;
Solomon.
shall
not
woman
is
Thus
what was
tie
why
should they
off
And
same germ is to
in the pretty anecdote of the judgement of
If one woman's child is dead, the other
have a live one either.
The bereaved
recognized by this wish.
social feeling is based upon the reversal of
be found
for
first
the
So
far as
we
of a
common
group.
We
identification
present
tender
tie
with
exhaustive,
but
it
is
enough
revert
to
for
this
our
one
Herd
TJie
feature
demand
its
89
Instirict
equalization
that
We
artificial
Do
not
must be equal
identify
person
that
we
themselves
superior
find
subsisting.
in
is
to
leader.
All
the
their
Many
one another,
them
all
that
all
equals,
is
members
want
to
who can
and a
the
its
single
situation
pronouncement
that he
to
one
all
the
be ruled by
that
is
let
the
in
in
be con-
shall
that
man
is
In
191 2
the
that
effect
was
of
that
primitive
of
society
human
of
powerful male.
form
human
indestructible traces
left
descent;
and,
especially,
upon the
the
that
in
itself
is
of the
killing
chief
by
community of
only
hypothesis,
archaeologists
called
so
many
'
Just-So Story
by a not unkind
critic
Totem 2ind
Tabti.
,
'
as
it
sure, this
with
if
it
is
which
darkness
of
was amusingly
(Kroeger); but
others
prehistoric times
is
To be
brothers.^
like
think
it
proves able to
coherence
bring
more new
understanding
into
more and
regions.
Human
groups
exhibit
once again
the
troop
91
of similar
contained
our
in
familiar
among
of
idea
we know
we have
descriptions to which
also
is
The
horde.
primal
the
it
from the
so often referred
the
thoughts
focussing
of
direction,
the
life,
this
all
mental
primitive
should be
inclined
What we have
tion
of
The
will
mankind
to
state
just described in
apply
to
such a sort as
to
must
of regression
of just
activity,
we
horde.
especially
to
the
primal horde.
An
ones.
it
felt
of
the individual
itself
reinforced
by
emotional
tie
which
to
is
is
and
soldiers,
common
cremental functions.
activity
The one
general diffusion.
its
shared by
in the
a volition unless
itself into
perception of
'a
all
the
members
circumstances of their
assist in
of the
and the
As we may
is
life
great exception
is
provided by the
92
G7'oiip
the
horde.
man
primitive
as
Just
us as a revival of
to
virtually
arise
in
may
so far
men are habitually under the sway of group formation we recognise in it the survival of the primal
as
We
horde.
group
is
isolated
all
the oldest
as
traces
of the
by
psychology,
individual
group,
has
only
since
neglecting
come
into
may
We
still,
perhaps, be described
upon
an
this
as
incomplete.
later
shall
venture
development.
Further
spect
this
reflection
statement
psychology must,
show
will
requires
us
in
correction.
what
re-
Individual
group psychology,
for
from the
first
members
free.
extreme case
As
the
to
is
condemned
is
to a state of painful
and
expectancy.
from
reinforcement
assume that
in
Primal Horde
tJic
and
isolation,
his
libidinal
leads
To
us
to
he loved
ties;
needed no
his will
Consistency
others.
93
so far as
in
He,
at
very
the
was
mankind,
beginning
of
the
history
of
the
by
nature,
absolutely
independent.
narcissism,
by
and
operating
know
may be
would be possible
it
this
in
way,
of a masterly
narcissistic,
We
their leader;
it
to
became
check upon
show how,
a
factor
of
civilisation.
The primal
immortal,
as
he
of
father
later
the
became by
deification.
If
he
was probably
taken by a youngest son, who had up to then been
a member of the group like any other. There must
died,
he had to be replaced;
therefore
logy
into
be a
his place
possibility of transforming
individual
group psycho-
accomplished, just
of necessity to
into a worker.
as
it
is
is
easily
One can
of
94
the primal father had prevented his sons from satisfying their directly sexual tendencies; he forced
and consequently
abstinence
into
into
the emotional
ties
them
sexual
their
into
aim.
He
forced them,
so
inhibited
speak,
to
erance became
intol-
in
psychology.'
Whoever became
his
given
means
way out
offered a
psychology.
The
woman and
made an end
or accumulation
those
its
this
and allowed
aim,
their
to
height.
full
We
his
shall return
in
a postscript to
We
may
instructive,
trivance
together
We
of the importance of
further
the
relation
emphasize,
that
by means of which an
and
l^the
as
being specially
constitution
artificial
of
the
group
primal
is
held
horde.
this
^ It may perhaps
also be assumed that the sons, when they
were driven out and separated from their father, advanced from
identification with one another to homosexual object love, and in
this way won freedom to kill their father.
is
Primal Horde
the
an
idealistic
primal horde,
where
were
persecuted
feared him
equally.
The
clan.
indestructible
group formation
presupposition
necessary
by the primal
of
upon the
the
mysterious
in
the
that they
father,
and
group
father's
equal
love
the family.
in
understand what
and
to
in
simply
the totemistic
society,
help
of
already presupposed
is
,'up
the
is
affairs
all
this
knew
of the sons
all
are built
duties
social
all
But
equally
95
is
It
still
derivation of
this
ought also to
incomprehensible
formations
all
that
lies
And
gestion.
think
it
can succeed
in
this
too.
Let
about
it;
repression.^
The
of uncanniness sug-
gests
hypnotist
asserts
that
he
is
in
is
induced.
possession of a
or,
which
of him.
is
the
same
This mysterious
own
power (which
is
even now
g6
Ego
often
is
does he manifest
him
is
his
But
look.
method of hypnotising
is
people,
as
mortals.
people
of
that
later
betw^een
could
of the
for
is
to act as an intermediary
some
Godhead
the
not
of the
sight
chieftain that
just
precisely the
is
it
telling
in
by
By
it?
God
and when he
his face
shone
just as
people.^
It
is
that
true
other ways,
This
is
by
procedures
attention
the
same
^
if
fixing
merely
it
serve
in
monotonous sound.
theories.
and to hold
as
listening to a
and
misleading
equate physiological
these
by
instance
for
bright object or
hypnosis
As
to
riveted.
matter
divert
The
inad-
of
fact
conscious
situation
is
Now
of course
be
make such
away from
his
is
subject's
intentions,
my
person
It
'
would
speech;
it
The
conscious
thoughts
towards
sink
an
into
activity
own
his
whom
experimenting
97
quite uninteresting.
technically
to conscious opposition.
the
Primal Horde
to
the
he
which
in
is
the
world
the
and
is
ference
into
on to
him.
hypnotising,
used
like
Thus
many
of
distributions
methods
the
indirect
the
technical
in
certain
getting
of mental
of
procedures
of checking
effect
energy which
would
result as the
direct
staring
or
stroking.^
^
This situation,
sciously
in
directed towards
hypnotist,
while he
is
is
uncon-
consciously
among
deserves
to
98
made
Ferenczi has
a hypnotist
himself
siders
two
modelled upon
which
command
more nor
are
to
for
sleep
And
lies
is
it
it
of
the
in
is
view from
of the
wall-paper
them
patient
that he sees
nothing
all
interest
psychological
the
Now
understood by the
so
withdrawal
this
in
based upon
is
of pressure
thinking
distin-
another
means
hypnosis
in
from the
characteristic
hypnosis
into
be
and
less
world
outer
sleep,
He
parents.
to
is
putting
is
is
hypnotist.
subject;
he
mother,
the
which
sleep,
subject's
of hypnosis
sorts
when
is
threatening,
the
of the
place
the
thinks that
guished
to
in
Ego
command
the
gives
done
often
Jstate
of
of
it.
motion
at
last
fail in
their effect.
As
a result
is
the
at
is
been given
^
this explanation.
Ferenczi:
Psychoanalyse,
'
Introjektion
909,
Bd.
I.
und Ubertragung.'
\Contributions
II.]
to
Jahrbuch der
Psycho-Analysis.
Primal Horde
By
awakens
notist
he
parents
wards
what
and
which
had
his
relation
in
awakened
thus
is
and
re-animation
individual
the
is
dangerous personality,
has to be surrendered,
It
is
while
paramount
of a
idea
whom only a
to whom one's
be alone with
to
hazardous
as this
we can
of the
primal
an
father;
his
face', appears a
the
in
only in
to
possible,
is
to-
experienced
towards
passive-masochistic attitude
will
hyp-
the
takes, then,
in
inheritance
his
99
father.
that
member
As we
a variable
aptitude
for
Some knowledee
is
tive
renewal of these
old
any
against
suspension of the
too
will
impressions,
formations,
which
phenomena,
may
back
horde.
to
the
The
fact
consequences
shown
therefore
their
resist-
of the
hypnosis.
it
still
has
their
in
with
suggestion
justice
be
traced
from
the
primal
origin
by unrestricted
is
are
of
may however
there
that
serious
in
that in
reviving
is
still
the dreaded
wishes to be governed
authority;
in
obedience.
Le Bon's
The primal
phrase,
father
in
it
is
has
the
group
for
thirst
ideal,
group
two;
of
suggestion
remains
there
conviction
which
as
is
definition
not
seems
It
to
me
for
upon
based
tie.^
fact that
the dis-
conception
According
of hypnosis
to
Bernheim
and go back
all
explanation.
We
have come
to
which
is
not
itself
to the conclusion
capable of further
that
suggestion
is
solidly
human
family.
in the
XI
A DIFFERENTIATING GRADE
If
we
survey
the
to-day, bearing
in
of
life
an
IN
THE EGO
man
individual
of
we may
that
are
position.
revealed,
Each
attempt
to
individual
is
comprehensive ex-
component
part
of
he can also
of
having
Such
stable
raise himself
scrap
and
of independence
lasting
originality.
effects,
are less
striking
their
to
an
his
brilliant
group mind.
psycho-
And
it
is
it
Grotip Psychology
02
others, that
we
are
met
temporary,
what we have
exactly
of
We
have interpreted
up
tutes
for
many
ideal
is
very
much
The
facilitated
concerned
form,
by
need
its
He
circumstance.
this
need
ego
a particularly
in
and
correction
every case.
in
of
the
in
coincide readily;
pure
embodied
as
substi-
the
earlier self-complacency.
is
ideal
is
individuals
his
meaning
as
leader.
In
group
the
it
prodigy
this
only
clearly
give
an
more freedom of
marked and
impression
and
libido;
of
in
meet
The
other
would
in
his
not,
members
apart from
person
of the group,
without
this,
some
correction,
carried
to
are
contribute
towards
the
explanation
of
the
then
that
is
able to
libidinal
groups
structure
of
between
the
ego
double kind of
tie
back
leads
and
ego
the
which
this
the
to
ideal.
The assumption
grade
\Stufe\
in
analysis of the
paper
together
identi-
the
for
ego
ego
as
step
first
an
in
its justifi-
have put
'
In
separation.
the
will
be discovered to be
now appears
it
significance
its
Let us
far greater.
But
deeper
penetrate
into
the
to
possible
all
distinction
cation in the
'
the
103
and
ideal
makes
fication,
my
Ego
reflect
in
to
the
it,
and that
all
this
this
place
new scene
I
thus
which
resuming
was obliged
discussion
the
to
one of the
only follow up
shall
leave
this
of
unsolved
difficulties
of mental functioning,
problem
elsewhere.
that
of the
point of
we
have
,aggravation
increases
its
04
instability,
breakdown, that
is,
for
its
Thus,
solutely self-sufficient
the perception of
And
discovery of objects.
fact that
for long,
to
sleep,
we
with this
we
that
that in
we
our
It
however,
true,
is
night, temporarily
is
any
pathologically
such
development
mental
more important,
qualification.
we have
existence
into
In
effected
the
not subject
of
course
our
of our
ego and
coherent
is
a separation
into
an
is left
outside
new
acquis-
stability of this
ition
in
in
it;
it,
day and
to
of things
state
this
world,
which
new
ation
associated the
is
is
at the gates,
and
in
artifices
the
for allowing
resistances
and
what
for
is
repressed to
receiving
of our
it
circumvent
temporarily into
Wit and
pleasure.
in
general.
may be regarded
the
with
is
have
and
has
be borne
cannot
indeed
be temporarily undone.
to
is
shown by the
institution
more
nothing
are
origin
in
the
character
to
Saturnalia
of the
agree
in
release
In
all
of every kind
which
of festivals,
they
less
feature
which
usually
with
end
bring. ^
the
in
than
their cheerful
essential
this
people,
The
carnival
of
festivals
debaucheries
ego ideal
long-
the rule;
is
nor
owe
primitive
for
which
hasten on
renunciations
this
of
view.
in
think
will
importance; but
less
neuroses
the
105
Everyone acquainted
light.
psychology of
to the application
It
this
in
examples of
similar
Ego
sum
comprises the
at
of
all
the limitations in
abrogation of the
magnificent
once again
^
'
for
festival
feel satisfied
ideal
the
with
would necessarily be a
ego,
which
might
then
itself.^
a translation of this
a contradiction
when
into
I
say in
my
is
condition of repression.
It
ideal
is
the
And
sense
the
inferiority)
triumph
when
ideal.
alwa3^s
is
something
the
of
of
feeling
well
(as
guilt
sense
the
as
ot
known
well
mood
colour of whose
oscillates periodically
ations
appear
from what
Yi/'hich,
in
is
make
disturbing
concerned.
In
inroads
upon the
typical
cases
as
become
the
all
others.
It
is
to
be found
We
shall
in
has consequently
being psychogenic.
seem
life
of this
cyclical
to
extreme instances
person
the
oscill-
in
of
from an
refer later
as
not
on to those
can
nevertheless
easily
be
traced
back
to
mental
traumata.
Thus the foundation of these spontaneous oscillations of mood is unknown; we are without insight
into the mechanism of the displacement of a melancholia by a mania.
So we are free to suppose that
these
patients
are
people
in
whom
our
conjecture
Ego
107
be temporarily resolved
previously ruled
mania
of
ego
and
is
the
ego
the
person,
of his
abolition
consideration for
On
clear:
others,
mood
in
his
cases
fused
of triumph
self-criticism,
inhibitions,
and
in
have
ideal
by no
self-satisfaction, disturbed
enjoy
is
and
so that the
together,
having
after
it
ego
the
ego
their
it
into
his
feelings
self-reproaches.
can
of
It
is
the expression of a
conflict
in
which the
ideal,
relentlessly exhibits
sitiveness,
ego
in
The
only question
in
its
an excess of sen-
condemnation of the
for the
ego
ideal
in
the
periodic
rebellions,
which
institution,
we
or
them.
change
feature of the
sion.
mania
is
not
an
indispensable
and some
in
development.
in
into
On
in
single
show
this
They
part.
psychogenic melan-
cholia
which
case
few
forms
to
we
is
only understand
those
given up because
love.
It
is
means of
appears
state of things
in
then
it
set
identification,
cases
So
far
in
has shown
itself
unworthy of
towards the
melancholic self-reproaches.^
melancholia of
this
kind
represents
feature
may
also
end
possibility of this
which
is
in
happ-
independent of
^ Cf. Abraham:
'Ansatze zur psychoanalytischen Erforschung
und Behandlung des manisch-depressiven Irreseins', 191 2, in
To speak more
them the
fixity,
tenacity,
Nevertheless
the
factor
against the
Ego
the
of
ego
see
no
difficulty
periodical
a share
ideal
in
assigning
in
rebellion
109
of
the
to
ego
spontaneous
the
then
suspension.
is
Idnd
may be supposed
that
results
automatically
in
its
temporary
be
incited to rebellion
its
ideal
an
it
by
ill-treatment
which
it
encounters when
XII
POSTSCRIPT
In
course
the
enquiry
of the
in
we avoided
pursuing
much that
propose now to
We
us promises of insight.
this
in
the
first
offered
take up
on one side
left
way.
The
A.
distinction
between
identification of the
that
is
is,
really,
while he
this
comradeship implies.
he
tries
to
superior,
community of
giving mutual help and
from
his
identify
their
and derives
which
with
the
general.
if
The
Postscript
soldier
in
Wie
Das habt
It
otherwise
is
Christian
loves
united with
all
to
also
gliicklich
abgeguckt
as
his
and
ideal
tie
the
Every
feels
himself
of identific-
He
and love
At both
!^
in
Christ
But the
ation.
has
ihm
ihr
all
points,
is
far
One can
for
mankind.
One need
the
Saviour's
But
love.
of libido
this
in
largeness
further
the
of soul
development
group
is
its
is,
and strength of
in
the distribution
probably the
factor
upon
that
spits,
We
B.
in
it
would be possible to
man
mental development of
the
was
logy
achieved
also
of the group.
For
the
to
scientific
He was
horde.
justice,
one
each
of
the
for
the
of
father
primal
he had produced
group.
first
them,
of
moment
return for a
on exalted
later
who composed
the sons
ideal
myth of the
and with
the world,
we must
purpose
this
once
at
all
He was
the
feared
and
These many
together,
the
of
if
killed
group
of victors
one of them
father's
heritage.
community
united
by
of
the
could
that
they
pieces.
his
must
None
place,
renounce
all
brothers,
totem
all
dissatisfaction
with
equal
prohibitions
or,
which
until
their
totemistic
rights
were
and
to
memory
of the murder.
been achieved
But the
in
take
did,
understood
they
banded themselves
individuals eventually
still
remained,
it
of an
and
Postscript
of
the
old
of
state
things
at
new
Man
level.
compensation
for
may
he
this
deities,
time have
that
at
whose
were
priests
had
been
by
given
horde.
And
to
himself from
the
of the
father
primal
new
family
the
father's
yet the
He who
part.
did
was the
this
epic
first
He
hero was a
the
monster.
first
The
ideal.
ideal,
place
father's
so
the
in
accordance
The
father
totemistic
boy's
lies
Just
in
poet
transition
as
the father
who
the hero
now
to
slain the
the
father
myth as a
had been the
the
aspires
created
the
hero
was
to the
ego
first
probably
whom
who,
father's
In
the
lying
poetic
fancies
8
of
1 1
of battle
The hero
Rank has
But, as
them
task
difficult
father
who has
surrogate
we
as
often
being
find,
animals,
such
be the brothers
way
same
in
signify brothers
as
babies).
myths
youngest
(usually
to
and not
son,
in-
frequently
harmless)
disavowed.
hero
the
that
and
in
as
stupid,
then,
say,
hero can
..
sisters
Moreover
fairy
to
is
this
dream symbolism
and
that
that
tales
vermin
or
(contemptuously, considered
every
is
insects
one
easily
of
the
tasks
recognisable
as
in
The
individual
myth was
by which
emerges from group psychology. The
myth,
then,
is
the
step
the
first
myth;
much
later.
Postscript
obsen^ed) to find
115
way back
his
to
it
in
deeds
hero's
his
For
reality.
one but
of
himself.
and
reality,
But
imagination.
and,
raises
The
w^ith
lie
of
deification
the
poet,
of
the hero.^
of the
the
of
level
themselves
the
to
understand
hearers
his
of their
virtue
in
hearers
his
heroic
Perhaps
hero.
earlier
myth culminates
than
a precursor
to
The
the
the
the
series
hero
deified
Father
the
in
God and
return
of
the
of gods, then,
Father God.
never
forgotten
C.
'
we
still
recognise
in
him to-day.^
directly
Cf.
made by
*,
analytical Congress,
Zeitschrift
held at the
fur Psychoanalyse,
Hague
1920,
in
1920.
Bd. VI.
summary
InternationaU
[*Day-Dreams
etc.,
in
in
I.]
1920, Vol.
in legends,
myths, fairy
tales,
1 1
in
and
their aims,
meet with
not
will
it
even
place,
if
what has
repeats
only
it
to a great
aims.
who
look after
these
objects
which
it
of
knows
and look
of;
them;
at
love
its
all
wants to
it
give
expression
child claims
the
signs
kiss
nurse-
whatever
proposes to
itself
it
of
its
understand
from
affection
genitals,
their intimate
promises to marry
may
it
to bear
to
The
is
it
its
pass by an easy
it
wishes w^hich
the
into
in their
feelings
instincts
has
best
its
by
mother
that;
it
gation
as
to
the
feelings
and
of childhood,
residue
complete
of
fusion
sexual
of
leave
tender
intentions,
and
no doubt
and
show
jealous
us
in
all
its
incompletely centred
sexual tendencies.^
Cf.
Postscript
This
first
typical cases
is
wave of
of latency onwards to a
as
it
is
over shows
the
the
with
tie
a completely
to
person
prototype
a given case
in
question
(or
imago).
quite
energy
or
'sensual'
that
of
feeling
object
rather with
cannot
that
indeed
investigation whether
certain
ties
though
courage to
us
It
life,
this
been exhausted.
possibility,
persist,
the
exists
also
gives
It
still
Psycho-
as 'sexual'.
childhood
of
successor
person's
in
tender
purely
as
in
years
and unconscious.
assert that
is
be described
to
difficulty
earliest
repressed
it
itself
analysis,
ot
tie,
no longer
has no
Such
left
emotional
is
repression.
To
it
put
is
it
still
more
there
still
it
has already
precisely:
as
form
it
is
and
and
put
into
activity
is
by
again
(and
it
means of
cannot always
must be taken
in this
repressed
unconscious,
1 1
of the
pathological.
psychology which
depths
the
emotional
are
repressed
is
regards
tender
as
which
derived
ties
tendencies
they
what
of
will
an aim/
We
diverted
is
some
requirements
giving
in
aim
of
diversion
have been
which
conform
will
which
preserve
some few
are
inhibited
aims
their
in
the
to
Moreover,
metapsychology.
of
instincts
of such
representation
those
always
the
person
who
If
we
ciim
physical
is
choose,
beginning
instincts,
proximity
of the
at
some more
sight
of the
diversion of
this
subthnation
of sublimation
and the
of
we may
distant
the
fix the
sexual
limits
Those
point.
great
functional
uninhibited.
Since
Hostile feelings,
advantage
they
are
which are a
no exception
over
not
little
those
which
capable
of
are
really
more complicated
to this rule.
in
Postscript
complete
satisfaction,
are
satisfied,
accumulation
fresh
while
object
the
inhibited
renewed
libido,
may have
been
capable
are
instincts
so
formed back
into
them, just
well
known how
It
develop
is
any
of
out
character,
emotional
of
The
easily
relations
degree
be
can
of
trans-
arose
out of
erotic
wishes
they
as
mean-
that
changed.
by a
of
and
friendly
admiration,
grec'),
women,
of this
provides a
with
kind,
listener,
hi fact the
their
between
and especially
in
pupil,
growth of emotional
purposeless beginnings,
to sexual object-
not
Pfister,
an
intense
,in
example
isolated
religious
excitement.
On
his
tie
can
of
how
revert
easily
to
it
is
even
ardent
an
sexual
to
be transformed
[Schri/ten zur
Deuticke, 1910.]
into a lasting
8.
tie;
Vienna,
upon
a large extent
rests to
We
this process.
shall naturally
make
obstacles
outer
The
the
become
the
horde
primal
compelled
forced
We
inner.
his
all
them
into
aims
sexual
the
during
repression
sexual
directly
unattainable.
period of latency
or
rather one
is
an
which has
owing
sons
to
to
that
ties
be
intolerance
sexual
his
abstinent,
and
thus
in
their
were inhibited
enjoyment and
the
ties
in this
All
ties.
new
subject,
D.
The
last
two remarks
have prepared us
will
able
the
is
to
the
formation of groups.
In
been group
relations
but
more
marriages);
became
the
important
to
be
limited
to
two
it
history of
have
of sexual
required
the
love
also,
it
(group
sexual
love
developed the
more urgently it
una cum
people
Postscript
uno
as
prescribed by
is
Polygamous
aim.
the
nature
of the
genital
had to be content
inclinations
to
Two
suffice
is
love, the
in
other.
The
manifested
in the
each
for
are
feelings
are
upon by a group
that
tie.
It
is,
only
is
of a
when
love
two
people
the tender,
it
possible
is
to
gives
relation
the
in
in
stage in sexual
yet
played
judged
of Bernard
that
no
relations,
part,
which being
at
and
all
sexual
being
in
love
the sense
love
means
greatly
as
were
objects
in
at
an early
to
But
effect
exaggerating
the
relations
between
men
and
women;
so
that
the
22
this
may seem
it
also
is
though
as
For
Now
development.
late
and
mothers
their
was,
brothers
and
parricide;
we
as
after
by
all
that
sisters
have
difficult
is
it
was
it
their love
troop
of
driven
to
the
supposed,
to imagine this
tender
One
a confirmation.
was
after
the
prohibition
women
the
all
of the
any
family
since childhood.
that
is,
this
objection
into
institution
of
love as
of
sexual
totemistic
relation
exogamy,
those
with
In this
feelings,
one
still
As a result ot
exogamy the sensual needs of men had to be
satisfied with strange and unloved women.
life
to-day.^
this
army,
there
The
object.
remains
no
is
room
love relation
outside
these
and the
woman as a sexual
between men and women
for
organisations.
Even
where
and
no
women
part.
the
There
See
'
Ober
is
men
distinction
Postscript
sexual
or
of
heterosexual
nature,
homo-
of a
for
not
is
it
and particularly
is
23
for the
Even
a
become
too
for
falling
they
in
has
love
and
of
seems
shape
takes the
remarkable
us
group
the
of race,
ties
social
certain
fact,
its
priests;
of uninhibited
and
factor in
homosexual
that
women
of national
system,
class
as
for
civili-
love
even when
ties,
it
sexual tendencies
is
it
far.
The
psycho-analytic
be traced back
are repressed but
this
in
they
group
every
In the
the
It
If
often
far
activity.
disintegrate
become
sexual tendencies
for
through
separation,
other respects
breaks
in
directly
individual
his
strong
unmarried and
but
of
little
formation.
has
group the
in
preserve
motives
who
a person
in
absorbed
to
us
whose
that
directly
still
remain
formula by adding to
their aims,
investigation
it:
of the psycho-
symptoms are
their
to
sexual
tendencies which
active.
We
or, to
inhibition
can complete
tendencies inhibited
24
made room
has
or
successful
It
in
is
make
should
a neurosis
that
return
to
the
accordance with
this
for
victim
its
and
asocial
may be
integrating
On
has
a neurosis
that
said
upon a group
effect
same
the
being
as
dis-
love.
in
it
may
diminish and at
all
Justifiable
made
to turn this
therapeutic account.
disappearance of religious
world
were
to-day
of
they
force
in
by them the
danger
all
of
the
ties
most powerful
with
sects
religious
distorted cures
is
bound
that
those
offered
Nor
neurosis.
up
from the
illusions
admit
will
is
long
so
they
as
against
hard to
mystico-religious
civilized
protection
it
regret the
discern
the
in
philosophico-
or
with
sexual tendencies
kinds of neuroses.
all
the
and
contrast
between
those which
of this
All
are
directly
inhibited
in
their aims.
If
replace
group
he
by
is
to himself, a neurotic
left
his
own symptom
formations
from
which
is
formations
he
is
obliged to
the
excluded.
great
He
Postscript
25
way which
clear
is
E.
we
conclusion,
In
estimate,
being
add a
will
libido
we have been
of group
of hypnosis,
love,
in
comparative
theory,
concerned, ot
formation,
and
of the neurosis.
Being in
love
based
is
that
are
itself.
room
It
condition
tendencies
but
that
The group
together,
in
is
only
for the
entirely
upon
their
aims
in
ego
ideal.
it
agrees with
and
in
other individuals,
by
based
inhibited
the
that
being limited
in love in
is
it
are
so
for the
sexual
which there
in
aims,
their
in
is
inhibited
their
replacement of the
this
it
it
ego ideal
the
same
relation
to
the
object.
Tabu und
die Ambivalenz*.
II,
'Das
26
Both
an
human
and
libido
hypnosis
group,
the
from
deposit
inherited
hypnosis
states,
in
of the
besides
The replacement
phylogenesis
the
as
this,
direct
survival.
in their
aims promotes
in
states a separation
by
both
ideal,
made
in
To
this
group formation
which
it
in
absent
is
extent
an intervening period
from being
in
love.
makes
It
its
to
not been
conflict
completely successful;
between
received
this
into
the
development
instincts which,
those
ego
and
instincts
after
those
and
portions
strive,
1920, S. 96.
of
been
through
the
same
have
which
having passed
represents
it
The
zur Sexnaltheorie,
4.
neurosis
Auflage,
Postscript
is
extraordinarily rich
possible relations
both those
in
which
it
and
itself
ego and
its
in
in
content,
for
is
ego
embraces
all
abandoned or erected
also
it
27
is
inside
the ego
INDEX
Abraham,
Affectivity.
62, 108.
See tinder Emotion.
Altruism, 57.
Conscience,
Contagion,
Ambivalence,
55, 61.
18,
34.
Mana
in,
96.
Darwin,
in,
90.
Doubt:
absence
in groups, 15-16.
interpretation in dreams,
15-16.
Dread:
Children's, 83, 85-6.
in a group, 46-8, 50.
in an individual, 47-8.
Neurotic, 48.
of society, 10.
Panic, 45-9.
Dream,
82, 91.
Dread
10-13,
75-
112, 122.
of, 90,
Caesar, 44.
Cathexis, 18, 20, 28, 117.
Object-, 48, 58, 60-1, 71-2, 76.
Catholic Church, 42-3, in, 123.
Celibacy of priests, 123.
Censorsliip of dreams, 16, 69.
Chieftains,
Emotional,
in Christ, 43.
Brtigeilles,
68-9,75, 79
Delusions:
of inferiority, 107.
of observation, 69.
Devotion to abstract idea, 17,
Community
10, 28,
Social, 88.
83, 85-6.
Unconscious
of,
18.
and
symbolism, 114.
Dut>% Sense of, 84, 88, 95.
Equal love
of,
Ego,
50.
Identification with,
iii.
Commander-in-Chief, 42-5.
Conflict,
18,
107, 126.
93,
Ego
no.
Relations between
80,
103,
eg"o
God, n5.
Identification with, 60-2.
Object
n2-i3,
and,
103, 105-10.
Testing reality of things, 77.
The first, 113.
cation
68-70,
Egoism,
n4.
Surrogate, 43,
Emotion
Ambivalent,
18,
55.
28.
of,
Contagion
the, 94,
of.
See Contagion.
Festivals, 105.
Folk-lore, 25.
Folk-song, 25.
French Revolution,
16,
34, 46-7-
of, 46-9.
relation to
26.
Function:
for testing reality, 20, 77.
(Instanz), 15.
Gemeingeist, origin
of,
87.
117-20.
God,
Cessation
Empathy,
Deifi-
57.
Charge
120.
115,
of,
identi-
Group
85, 96.
Father, n5.
Gregariousness, 83-4, 92.
43.
no,
89,94,
122.
Dread
in, 47.
Equality
in,
89.
121.
feeling, 86-7,
Heightened affectivity
See under Emotion.
ideal,
in.
100, 102.
Intellectual
capacity
of,
14,
MI
Index
Group (contimied)
40,
indi-
Idealisation, 74.
Identification, 59-70, 75-6, 84,
86-9, 94, 101-3, III, 125.
Libidinal structure
of, 37,
change of the
vidual
psychological
character
of,
6-32.
psychology,
37, 45,
112,
53,
59, 92-4,
loi,
114.
Revolutionary, 26.
Sexual instincts and, 120.
spirit, 87.
Stable, 26, 41, 84, loi.
Suggestibility of, 11, 13, 35,
84-5.
Transient, 25, 41, 84, 10 1.
83-6, 105,
121.
123.
1
13-14,
120.
Father
and
to, 64.
with
with
with
with
Psycholog>%
Delusions
of,
57,
106-7.
symptom, 63-5.
Regression of object-choice
Inferiority,
in hysterical
46-7.
Infection, mental, 64-65.
Ambivalent, 61.
Removal
of,
17,
28,
33.
Instinct:
Herd,
3,
inhibited
1
83-6,
in
105,
aim,
5-26.
Love,
37,
39,
Nutrition, 85.
Primary, 84-5.
58.
121.
72-3,
78,
32
Instinct (continued)
Unconscious,
Withdrawal
10.
108.
122.
a factor of civilisation, 57, 93.
and character formation, 94,
118-20.
and hatred, 56.
Being
Jealousy, 121.
of,
in,
58,
7i-9,
120-1,
24-6.
Child's,
16-17.
Christ's, 43,
Language,
Pauline,
38, 71.
25,
Latency, period
of,
126.
118.
The word,
for,
Unhappy,
Abstractions
53.
Equal love
of,
93, 95.
with, iio-ii.
Identification
Killing the, 90.
Loss
of,
10.
Libidinal
structure of the group, 37,
40, 44-5,47, 53,70,79-80,
102-3.
The word,
ties,
44,
44.
56-8, 65, 93,
Sublimated homosexual,
57.
37-9, 71.
75.
Unsensual, 73.
McDougall,
49.
Negative, 53.
Prestige of, 21-2.
in
Self-.
100.
I, 26-31, 34-6,
46-7, 49, 84.
Magical power of words, 19.
Magnetic influence, 1 1.
Magnetism, animal, 96.
Mana,
96.
Mania, 106-9.
Marcuszewicz, 68.
Marriage, 54, 120.
Melancholia, 68, 106-9.
Metapsychology, 63, 118.
Moede, Walter, 24.
Moliere, 119.
Morality, Totemism the origin
of,
90.
Index
133
Pan-sexualism, 39.
Paid, Saint, 39, 118.
Nachmaiisohn,
P/ato,
38.
Poet,
the
Panic, 45-9.
PJister,
39.
19.
Napoleon, 44.
Narcissism,
Power,
2, 38,
54-8,69, 74-5,
Object,
of,
5^,
9,
first
62,
18-19,
4, 7 14, 18,
38-9. 59-60, 84, 97.
Psychology:
Group, 1-4,
18,
119, 121.
Child's, 72.
-choice, 54, 62, 64, 74, III,
119, 121.
Eating the, 61-62.
Hyper-cathexis
of,
Rank,
76.
Rapport, 97.
Less or Renunciation
Reality:
of,
68,
Wars
of,
51.
Repressed:
Sexual tendencies, 74, 117,
123-4.
117.
Inverted, 62.
Oral phase of organisation of
the libido, 61.
Orgy, 121.
114.
108.
30-1,
113-114.
of leaders, 21.
of words, 19.
Prestige, 21-2, 34.
Primitive peoples, 14,
24, 92, 96, 105.
3<5,
76.
Change
66,
epic,
28.
15,
Psycho-Analysis,
84.
119.
39,
41-2,
80,
82,
90.
117-18, 126.
64-5, 69,
72, 84, 95, 105, 117, 120,
Resistance, 84, 104.
Responsibility, Sense of, 9-10,
The,
10,
Repression,
29-30.
104,
9,
54,
34
Richter,
Konrad,
36.
Counter-, 35.
Definition for, 100.
Self-:
consciousness, 30-1.
depreciation, 107,
love. See tmder Narcissism.
observation, 69.
preservation, 15, 34, 84-5.
sacrifice,
11,
Mutual,
12,
27,
34, 82.
Superman, 93.
Taboo,
19, 96,
112.
Tarde, 34.
Totemism,
38, 75.
Sex, 39.
90,
12-13.
Totemistic:
Sexual
clan, 95.
act, 92,
aims,
121.
58,
72.
Diversion of
19,
120.
72.
over-estimation, 53-5.
Tendencies, Inhibited and
unhibited. 72-3, 77-8, 94,
1 15-16,
125-26.
union, 37-8.
Shazv, Bernard, 121.
Sidis, Boris, 84.
Sighele, 24-5.
Simniel, E., 44.
Sleep, 98, 104.
and hypnosis, 98.
Smith, Robertson, 70.
community of brothers,
exogamy, 122.
Tradition, 17, 21.
of the group, 31.
of the individual, 32.
Transference, 97-8.
Trotter,
interpretation in dreams,
15-16.
Unconscious, 8, 10, 12, 14-16,
18, 23-4, 64, 67, 72, 97,
100,
104.
Le
Racial, 9.
of,
14.
10.
10.
Group
Wallenstein, 44.
neuroses, 44.
War
War, The,
Speech, 84.
Sublimated:
devotion, 17, 75.
homosexual
Sublimation,
105.
Social:
Dread
112.
love, 57.
118.
44.
of,
20.
of,
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