Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego Quotes

“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.”
― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.”
― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.”
― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“And, finally, groups have never thirsted after
truth. They demand illusions, and cannot do without them. They constantly give what is unreal precedence
over what is real; they are almost as strongly influenced
by what is untrue as by what is true. They
have an evident tendency not to distinguish between
the two.”
― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“كم هي عديدة ظاهرات التبعية في المجتمع البشري العادي,وكم هي قليلة فيه ظاهرات الأصالة والشجاعة الشخصية.”
― سيجموند فرويد, علم نفس الجماهير

“Here is yet another important consideration for
helping us to understand the individual in a group:
Moreover, by the mere fact that he forms part of
an organised group, a man descends several rungs
in the ladder of civilization. Isolated, he may be a
cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian—
that is, a creature acting by instinct. He possesses
the spontaneity, the violence, the ferocity, and also
the enthusiasm and heroism of primitive beings.
He then dwells especially upon the lowering in
intellectual ability which an individual experiences when
he becomes merged in a group.”
― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.”
― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“Since McDougall contrasts the behaviour of a
highly organised group with what has just been described,
we shall be particularly interested to learn
in what this organisation consists, and by what
factors it is produced. The author enumerates five
principal conditions '
for raising collective mental
life to a higher level.
The first and fundamental condition is that there
should be some degree of continuity of existence in
the group. This may be either material or formal:
the former, if the same individuals persist in the
group for some time; and the latter, if there is
developed within the group a system of fixed positions
which are occupied by a succession of individuals.
The second condition is that in the individual
member of the group some definite idea should be
formed of the nature, composition, functions and
capacities of the group, so that from this he may
develop an emotional relation to the group as a
whole.
The third is that the group should be brought
into interaction (perhaps in the form of rivalry) with
other groups similar to it but differing from it in
many respects.
The fourth is that the group should possess
traditions, customs and habits, and especially such as
determine the relations of its members to one
another.
The fifth is that the group should have a definite
structure, expressed in the specialisation and differentiation
of the functions of its constituents.
According to McDougall, if these conditions
are fulfilled, the psychological disadvantages of the
group formation are removed. The collective lowering
of intellectual ability is avoided by withdrawing
the performance of intellectual tasks from the group
and reserving them for individual members of it.”
― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“McDougall does not dispute the thesis as to
the collective inhibition of intelligence in groups
(p. 41). He says that the minds of lower intelligence
bring down those of a higher order to their own
level. The latter are obstructed in their activity,
because in general an intensification of emotion
creates unfavourable conditions for sound intellectual
work, and further because the individuals are intimidated
by the group and their mental activity is
not free, and because there is a lowering in each
individual of his sense of responsibility for his own
performances.”
― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“It has
long been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale
Angst] is the essence of what is called conscience.”
― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“It has
long been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale
Angsty is the essence of what is called conscience.”
― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“La multitud es un dócil rebaño incapaz de vivir sin amo.”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“en cuanto cierto número de seres vivos se reúne, trátese de un rebaño o de una multitud humana, los elementos individuales se colocan instintivamente bajo la autoridad de un jefe.”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“La consciencia de la culpabilidad y el sentimiento del deber serían las dos propiedades características del animal gregario.”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicologia de las Masas y Análisis del Yo

“Согласно знаменитому сравнению Шопенгауэра о мерзнущих дикобразах, ни один человек не переносит слишком интимного приближения другого человека. По свидетельству психоанализа, почти каждая продолжительная интимная эмоциональная связь между двумя людьми, как то: брачные отношения, дружба, отношения между родителями и детьми, — содержит осадок отвергающих враждебных чувств, которые не доходят до сознания лишь вследствие вытеснения.”
― Sigmund Freud, Психология масс и анализ человеческого «Я»

“Todos los individuos quieren ser iguales, pero bajo el dominio de un caudillo.”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“La masa se nos muestra, pues, como una resurrección de la horda primitiva.”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“La masa quiere siempre ser dominada por un poder ilimitado. Avida de autoridad, tiene, según las palabras de Gustavo Le Bon, una inagotable sed de sometimiento.”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“Podemos admitir perfectamente que la separación operada entre el yo y el ideal del yo no puede tampoco ser soportada durante mucho tiempo y ha de experimentar, de cuando en cuando, una regresión.”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“El sentimiento de culpabilidad (o de inferioridad) puede ser considerado como la expresión de un estado de tensión entre el yo y el ideal.”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“El hombre, débil criatura, no puede pretender elevarse a la grandeza de alma y a la capacidad de amor de Cristo.”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“Así, pues, el mito constituye el paso con el que el individuo se separa de la psicología colectiva.”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“El hombre afectivo, el amigo y el admirador buscan también la proximidad corporal y la vista de la persona amada, pero con un amor de sentido «pauliniano».”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“Sabido es con cuánta facilidad las relaciones afectivas de carácter amistoso, fundadas en el reconocimiento y la admiración”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

“Bernard Shaw: «Estar enamorado significa exagerar desmesuradamente la diferencia entre una mujer y otra.»”
― Sigmund Freud, Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo