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Thoughts for the Times on Groups and Masses: A Sigmund Freud Museum Symposium

Editor : Daniela Finzi, Editor : Jeanne Wolff Bernstein

Reviews and Endorsements

This volume is a very important and timely contribution. The chapters taken together offer multiple psychoanalytic perspectives on Freud’s “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego,” which could not be more timely given the rise of authoritarian regimes around the world, current threats to democracy, and the rise of fanatical right-wing populist movements. The interpretations of the authors provoke serious attention to the continuing relevance of Freud’s - and his predecessors’ and successors’ - important contributions to the understanding of group/mob psychology and the role of the narcissistic leader.
Pamela Cooper-White, Union Theological Seminary

Mass psychology – its roots in large group identity, its vulnerability to collective trauma, and its inchoate shaping by the digital world – could not be a more timely subject. This book’s authors engage that subject, in that word’s more basic meaning of pledging oneself, in this case, to work deeply and personally with Freud’s text. The results are breathtaking! Freud still lives at Bergasse 19, and he hosts profoundly interesting conversations.
M. Gerard Fromm, past president of the International Dialogue Initiative, former director of the Erikson Institute, Austen Riggs Center