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Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, first edition, first impression, first issue with no mention of Hogarth Press on the title page, 1922, Octavo (8vo), 133p, original green cloth cover gilt text, condition: edges bumped, spine edges worn, stain on back board, light foxing to a few pages, light toning to pages.
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego - within the psychoanalytical community, Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego is a polarising work. Some analysts decry it as a minor piece, merely reiterating his earlier works. Other analysts praise it as an important text providing new avenues for analytical exploration of the psyche, particularly in regard to humankind’s “thirst for obedience”. Group Psychology focuses on the nature of leadership, and the hypnotising effect that can be held over a crowd.
Freud, Sigmund, (1856-1939) is most famous for founding psychoanalysis. Freud’s theories and therapeutic techniques led to much of the psychology we see today. Indeed, several branches of psychology are directly attributable to Freud’s work, including dream interpretation, talking therapies, and false memory creation, among others. Although the psychosexual emphasis of his work is discredited in the modern day, Freud identified many of the relationships between the different facets of the human psyche and the world around us.