Philosophy
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego · Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse
Sigmund Freud
Translated by James Strachey
Freud reads Le Bon and asks what holds a crowd, a church or an army together: identification, love for the leader and the herd instinct, in German and English.
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- German: Sigmund Freud, Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse (Leipzig, Vienna and Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1921), Project Gutenberg #30843.
- English: James Strachey’s translation (London: International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1922), Project Gutenberg #35877. Aligned chapter by chapter, by meaning; footnotes are not included.