THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL LIBRARY
No. 6
GROUP PSYCHOLOGY
AND
THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO
BY
SIGM. FREUD, M. D., LL. D.
AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION
BY
JAMES STRACHEY
THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL PRESS
LONDON MCMXXII VIENNA
Copyright 1922
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
A comparison of the following pages with the German original(Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse, Internationaler PsychoanalytischerVerlag, Vienna, 1921) will show that certain passages have beentransferred in the English version from the text to the footnotes. Thisalteration has been carried out at the author's express desire.
All technical terms have been translated in accordance with the Glossaryto be published as a supplement to the International Journal ofPsycho-Analysis.
J. S.
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| I | Introduction | 1 |
| II | Le Bon's Description of the Group Mind | 5 |
| III | Other Accounts of Collective Mental Life | 23 |
| IV | Suggestion and Libido | 33 |
| V | Two Artificial Groups: the Church and the Army | 41 |
| VI | Further Problems and Lines of Work | 52 |
| VII | Identification | 60 |
| VIII | Being in Love and Hypnosis | 71 |
| IX | The Herd Instinct | 81 |
| X | The Group and the Primal Horde | 90 |
| XI | A Differentiating Grade in the Ego | 101 |
| XII | Postscript | 110 |
| Footnotes | ||