On Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

The contributors to this volume provide commentaries on Freud's work, explicating the multiple ways in which Freud's insights continue to illuminate the irrational dynamics to which all groups including psychoanalytic institutions, are prey. Serving as both an introduction to, and elegant expansion of, Freud's text, this volume demonstrates the role of psychoanalytic hypotheses in obtaining deeper insight into the tectonic shifts in group psychology underlying today's mass society.