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The book has a strong connection with Sigmund Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. In this book Freud refers heavily to the writings of Gustave Le Bon, summarizing his work at the beginning of the book in the chapter Le Bons Schilderung der Massenseele ("Le Bon's description of the group mind").
Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou, Centre-Val de Loire on 7 May 1841 to a family of Breton ancestry. At the time of Le Bon's birth, his mother, Annette Josephine Eugénic Tétiot Desmarlinais, was twenty-six and his father, Jean-Marie Charles Le Bon, was forty-one and a provincial functionary of the French government. [6]
The psychology of revolution by Gustave Le Bon. Translated from La Révolution française et la psychologie des révolutions. London, Fabre: poet of science by G. V. Legros. London; Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. (tr. with Jessie Muir) Pelle the conqueror by Martin Andersen Nexö. Translated from the Danish.
Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War is the title of an influential book by English surgeon Wilfred Trotter, published in 1916.Based on the ideas of Gustave Le Bon, it was very influential in the development of group dynamics and crowd psychology, and the propaganda of Edward Bernays.
A category of social psychology known as "crowd psychology" or "mob psychology" examines how the psychology of a group of people differs from the psychology of any one person within the group. The study of crowd psychology looks into the actions and thought processes of both the individual members of the crowd and of the crowd as a collective ...
[2] [26] Theorists of the first generation, including Gustave Le Bon, Charles A. Ellwood, and Pitirim Sorokin, were mainly descriptive in their approach, and their explanations of the phenomena of revolutions were usually related to social psychology, such as Le Bon's crowd psychology theory. [9]
The Rebel (book) Revolution from Above; Revolutionary Islam; The Roman Revolution; List of books about the Romanian Revolution; S. The Society of the Spectacle;
Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter, FRS [1] (3 November 1872 – 25 November 1939) was an English surgeon, a pioneer in neurosurgery.He was also known for his studies on social psychology, most notably for his concept of the herd instinct, which he first outlined in two published papers in 1908, and later in his famous popular work Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War, an early classic of crowd ...