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Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In Mass Psychology and Analysis of the 'I' he explores the notion of 'mass-psychology' - his findings would prove all too prophetic in the years that followed. Writings such as A Religious Experience and The Future of an Illusion continue earlier work on the essential savagery of the civilized mind, and Moses the Man and Monotheistic Religion excavates the roots of religion and racism, which he concludes are inextricably intertwined.
This remarkable collection reveals Freud not only at his most radically pessimistic, but also at his most personally courageous - engaging with his own adherences, his own antecedents, his own identity.
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I am certainly not the first to have been struck by the similarity between the so-called 'compulsive actions' of nervous people and the routines by means of which the believer testifies to his piety.1 Read the first page
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"an comphrehenive intake of the psyche as a social force",
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This review is from: Mass Psychology: And Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts) (Paperback)
This book is very a detailed yet a comprehensive read, enjoyable for the academic writing specifically about Freud and his views about religious faith and the army and how these social drivers can cause human kind to commit acts of atrocities.This book would be also enjoyable for the interested follower of Freud who wants an earlier intake of some of Freud’s more controversial writings. Although this book can be a difficult read without the prior understanding of Freud’s concepts and notions of the dynamics of the human mind. This book discusses only a few aspects of Freud’s interest of the human mind and how social drivers drive us to behaviour.
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