{"product_id":"2940012571823","title":"GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                       Page\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I Introduction                                         1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  II Le Bon's Description of the Group Mind               5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III Other Accounts of Collective Mental Life            23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IV Suggestion and Libido                               33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   V Two Artificial Groups: the Church and the Army      41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VI Further Problems and Lines of Work                  52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VII Identification                                      60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII Being in Love and Hypnosis                          71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IX The Herd Instinct                                   81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   X The Group and the Primal Horde                      90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XI A Differentiating Grade in the Ego                 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XII Postscript                                         110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contrast between Individual Psychology and Social or Group[1]\u003cbr\u003ePsychology, which at a first glance may seem to be full of significance,\u003cbr\u003eloses a great deal of its sharpness when it is examined more closely. It\u003cbr\u003eis true that Individual Psychology is concerned with the individual man\u003cbr\u003eand explores the paths by which he seeks to find satisfaction for his\u003cbr\u003einstincts; but only rarely and under certain exceptional conditions is\u003cbr\u003eIndividual Psychology in a position to disregard the relations of this\u003cbr\u003eindividual to others. In the individual's mental life someone else is\u003cbr\u003einvariably involved, as a model, as an object, as a helper, as an\u003cbr\u003eopponent, and so from the very first Individual Psychology is at the\u003cbr\u003esame time Social Psychology as well--in this extended but entirely\u003cbr\u003ejustifiable sense of the words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe relations of an individual to his parents and to his brothers and\u003cbr\u003esisters, to the object of his love, and to his physician--in fact all\u003cbr\u003ethe relations which have hitherto been the chief subject of\u003cbr\u003epsycho-analytic research--may claim to be considered as social\u003cbr\u003ephenomena; and in this respect they may be contrasted with certain other\u003cbr\u003eprocesses, described by us as 'narcissistic', in which the satisfaction\u003cbr\u003eof the instincts is partially or totally withdrawn from the influence of\u003cbr\u003eother people. The contrast between social and narcissistic--Bleuler\u003cbr\u003ewould perhaps call them 'autistic'--mental acts therefore falls wholly\u003cbr\u003ewithin the domain of Individual Psychology, and is not well calculated\u003cbr\u003eto differentiate it from a Social or Group Psychology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe individual in the relations which have already been mentioned--to\u003cbr\u003ehis parents and to his brothers and sisters, to the person he is in love\u003cbr\u003ewith, to his friend, and to his physician--comes under the influence of\u003cbr\u003eonly a single person, or of a very small number of persons, each one of\u003cbr\u003ewhom has become enormously important to him. Now in speaking of Social\u003cbr\u003eor Group Psychology it has become usual to leave these relations on one\u003cbr\u003eside and to isolate as the subject of inquiry the influencing of an\u003cbr\u003eindividual by a large number of people simultaneously, people with whom\u003cbr\u003ehe is connected by something, though otherwise they may in many respects\u003cbr\u003ebe strangers to him. Group Psychology is therefore concerned with the\u003cbr\u003eindividual man as a member of a race, of a nation, of a caste, of a\u003cbr\u003eprofession, of an institution, or as a component part of a crowd of\u003cbr\u003epeople who have been organised into a group at some particular time for\u003cbr\u003esome definite purpose. When once natural continuity has been severed in\u003cbr\u003ethis way, it is easy to regard the phenomena that appear under these\u003cbr\u003especial conditions as being expressions of a special instinct that is\u003cbr\u003enot further reducible, the social instinct ('herd instinct', 'group\u003cbr\u003emind'), which does not come to light in any other situations. But we may\u003cbr\u003eperhaps venture to object that it seems difficult to attribute to the\u003cbr\u003efactor of number a significance so great as to make it capable by itself\u003cbr\u003eor arousing in our mental life a new instinct that is otherwise not\u003cbr\u003ebrought into play. Our expectation is therefore directed towards two\u003cbr\u003eother possibilities: that the social instinct may not be a primitive one\u003cbr\u003eand insusceptible of dissection, and that it may be possible to discover\u003cbr\u003ethe beginnings of its development in a narrower circle, such as that of\u003cbr\u003ethe family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough Group Psychology is only in its infancy, it embraces an immense\u003cbr\u003enumber of separate issues and offers to investigators countless\u003cbr\u003eproblems which have hitherto not even been properly distinguished from\u003cbr\u003eone another.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069413703920,"sku":"2940012571823","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012571823_p0.jpg?v=1763569997","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012571823","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}