Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay

Overview

To Freud, individual and social psychology were virtually identical.

The question he addresses here is, What are the emotional bonds that hold collective entities, such as an army and a church, together? It is a fruitful question, and Freud offers some interesting answers. But Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego stands chiefly as an invitation to further psychoanalytic exploration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393007701
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/1990
Series:	Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud , #6
Edition description:	The Standard Edition
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	206,604
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.

Peter Gay (1923—2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.