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GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO - ...

The contrast between individual Psychology and Social or Group Psychology  which at a first
glance may seem to be full of significance  loses a great deal of its sharpness when it is
examined more closely. It is true that individual Psychology is concerned with the individual
man and explores the paths by which he seeks to find satisfaction for his instincts  but only
rarely and under certain exceptional conditions is individual Psychology in a position to
disregard the relations of this individual to others. In the individual's mental life someone
else is invariably involved  as a model  as an object  as a helper  as an opponent  and so from
the very first individual Psychology is at the same time Social Psychology as well - in this
extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words. Thc relations of an individual to his
parents and to his brothers and sisters  to the object of his love  and to his physician - in
fact all the relations which have hitherto been the chief subject of psychoanalytic research -
may claim to be considered as social phenomena  and in this respect they may be contrasted with
certain other processes  describcd by us as 'narcissistic'  in which the satisfaction of the
instincts is partially or totally withdrawn from the influence of other people. The contrast
between social and narcissistic-Bleuler would perhaps call them 'autistic'-mental acts
therefore falls wholly within the domain of Individual Psychology  and is not well calculated
to diffcrentiate it from a Social or Group Psychology. [...] This fantastic book of Dr. Sigmund
Freud is a reprint of the original published work in 1922.

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