Psicolog a de las masas re ne tres trabajos escritos por Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) bajo la profunda impresi n causada por la b rbara contienda que hab a asolado Europa entre 1914 y 1919. El ensayo que da t tulo al volumen estudia al individuo como miembro de agregados sociales. M s all del principio del placer da entrada por primera vez en la teor a psicoanal tica al instinto de muerte, pareja dial ctica del instinto de vida. Por ltimo, El porvenir de una ilusi n es una reflexi n acerca de las posibilidades de una cultura no represiva.
Classical Freudian Psychology...his discussion on Group Behavior and the Ego (leadership functions and issues) is insightful and provides provocative understanding of group process....traditional Psychoanalytic thought.....
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
In his Pulitzer-Prize winning book, The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker wrote that Freud's "great work, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego...in my opinion is probably the single most potentially liberating tract that has ever been fashioned by man." I haven't read this work of Freud's yet, but I will soon, because of Becker's comment. I've read many of Freud's works and have found them fascinating and very helpful, even though they're far fetched at times and I don't share Freud's disdain for religious faith. Becker's work is wonderful (I'm reviewing now from cover to cover the many passages I've highlighted) and voices both appreciations and criticisms of Freud throughout his work. So if he says this about Group Psychology, I've got to read it!
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