TLS in German, signed “Prof. Freud,” one page, 6 x 8.5, personal letterhead, August 27, 1924. In full (translated): "If you want to translate the brochure 'Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego' into Dutch, then please contact the International Psychoanalytical Publishing House, Vienna VII. Andreasgasse 3, to find out the conditions. Because of the authorization, you want to give me the name of the translator to whom you will transfer the task. I cannot give an authorization to a person unknown to me. It is best if you contact Dr. J. E. G van Emden, Hague, Jan van Nassaustraat No. 8 to obtain a translator or review the one you have suggested." In very good to fine condition, with creasing, light toning, and two small dark stains.
Published by the International Psychoanalytic Publishing House in 1921, Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego keys in on various psychological mechanisms at play within mass movements. He suggests that the individual, when part of a mass, obtains a sense of power that allows him to act on impulses that he would otherwise dismiss as a lone individual, thus enabling him to act as part of the mass, and to likewise feel safety in numbers. Freud posits that effects include a loss of conscious personality and an inclination of the individual to be affected by any emotion within the mass. Freud concluded: 'A primary mass is a number of individuals who have put one and the same object in place of their ego ideal and consequently identify with each other.'
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