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GROUP
PSYCHOLOGY AND
THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO
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
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| Freud
believed that whenever people come together en masse,
the uncontrollable violence characteristic of early
human groups is likely to re-emerge. |
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| “Primal
horde” refers to the earliest group of humans,
characterized by violence and male sexual competition. |
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