Reading Almanac

This companion keeps interpretation outside the source body. Use it to follow Freud's movement from crowd psychology into libido, identification, love, hypnosis, the primal horde, and the ego ideal.

Reading axes

Group mind
Le Bon and later accounts establish the descriptive problem.
Libidinal ties
Freud tests suggestion through love, leader, Church, Army, and cohesion.
Identification
The central psychoanalytic bridge between individual and group.
Ego ideal
The late conceptual hinge for love, hypnosis, criticism, and leadership.