Summary Of "Group Psychology And The Analysis Of The Ego" By Sigmund Freud

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO (1921) INTRODUCTION IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL, THE OTHER COUNTS AS A MODEL, AS AN OBJECT, AS AN AUXILIARY AND AS AN ENEMY; THAT IS WHY FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY IS SIMULTANEOUSLY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY The subject's relationships with his parents and siblings, with his love object, teacher or doctor, have the right to be considered social phenomena. Thus, they come into opposition with other processes, called by psychoanalysis, narcissistic, in which drive satisfaction withdraws from the influence of other people, or renounces them. Therefore, the opposition between social and narcissistic mental acts would belong to the field of individual psychology and could not be separated from social or mass psychology. Now, when it comes to this type of phenomenon, the object of inquiry is the simultaneous influence of a large number of people on an individual who is linked. This link is the social drive, which leads to integrate him into a people, a caste, an institution or an organized multitude.