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GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO View manuscript with highlighted passage Title page - page 102 - page 103 Thus the group appears to us as a revival of the primal horde. Just as primitive man survives potentially in every individual, so the primal horde may arise once more out of any random collection . . . Sigmund Freud, 1921 Freud believed that whenever people come together en masse, the uncontrollable violence characteristic of early human groups is likely to re-emerge. . “Primal horde” refers to the earliest group of humans, characterized by violence and male sexual competition.

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( January 9, 2002 )