Group Psychology and The Analysis of The EgoFreud, Sigmund
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Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego
Freud, Sigmund
Ego (Psychology); Psychoanalysis; Social psychology
Both states, hypnosis and group formation, are an inherited deposit from
the phylogenesis of the human libido--hypnosis in the form of a
predisposition, and the group, besides this, as a direct survival. The
replacement of the directly sexual tendencies by those that are
inhibited in their aims promotes in both states a separation between the
ego and the ego ideal, a separation with which a beginning has already
been made in the state of being in love.
_The neurosis_ stands outside this series. It also is based upon a
peculiarity in the development of the human libido--the twice repeated
start made by the directly sexual function, with an intervening period
of latency.[75] To this extent it resembles hypnosis and group formation
in having the character of a regression, which is absent from being in
love. It makes its appearance wherever the advance from directly sexual
instincts to those that are inhibited in their aims has not been
completely successful; and it represents a _conflict_ between those
instincts which have been received into the ego after having passed
through this development and those portions of the same instincts which,
like other instinctive desires that have been completely repressed,
strive, from the repressed unconscious, to attain direct satisfaction.
The neurosis is extraordinarily rich in content, for it embraces all
possible relations between the ego and the object--both those in which
the object is retained and others in which it is abandoned or erected
inside the ego itself--and also the conflicting relations between the
ego and its ego ideal.
INDEX
_Abraham_, 62, 108.
Affectivity. _See under_ Emotion.
Altruism, 57.
Ambivalence, 18, 55, 61.
Anaclitic type, 60.
Archaic inheritance, 10, 99.
Army 42-6, 89, 94, 110, 122.
Autistic mental acts, 2.
_Bernheim_, 35, 100
_Bleuler_, 2.
Brothers, 43, 114.
in Christ, 43.
Community of, 90, 112, 122.
_Brugeilles_, 34.
_Caesar_, 44.
Cathexis, 18, 20, 28, 117.
Object-, 48, 58, 60-1, 71-2, 76.
Catholic Church, 42-3, 111, 123.
Celibacy of priests, 123.
Censorship of dreams, 16, 69.
Chieftains, Mana in, 96.
Children, 14, 16, 18-19, 30, 67 82, 91.
Dread in, 83, 85-6.
Parents and, 54, 86, 116.
Sexual object of, 72, 116.
Unconscious of, 18.
_Christ_, 42-5, 50, 111.
Equal love of, 50.
Identification with, 111.
Church, 42-3, 89, 94, 110-11, 122-3.
Commander-in-Chief, 42-5.
Conflict, 18, 107, 126.
Conscience, 10, 28, 68-9, 75, 79
Social, 88.
Contagion, Emotional, 10-13, 27, 34-5, 46-7.
Crowd, 1, 3, 26, 92.
Danger, Effect on groups, 46-9.
_Darwin_, 90.
Delusions:
of inferiority, 107.
of observation, 69.
Devotion to abstract idea, 17, 75.
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, 20, 69, 104.
Interpretation of doubt and uncertainty in, 15-16.
symbolism, 114.
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