Freud’s Theory and the Group Mind Theory: Formulations - Open Journal of Medical Psychology

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Freud’s Theory and the Group Mind Theory: Formulations ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojmp.2014.31003 10,719 Downloads 19,376 Views

Author(s)

Claudio Garcia Capitão

Affiliation(s)

S?o Francisco University, Rua Alexandre Rodrigues Barbosa, Itatiba, Brazil.

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to reconsider some concepts of the psychoanalytic theory on group mind. Group psychology is concerned with the individual man as a member of a race, nation, caste, profession, or an institution, or as a component of a crowd of people that has been organized into a group at some particular time, for some specific purpose. Group psychology embraces an immense number of separate issues and offers investigators with countless problems, which have hitherto not even been properly distinguished from one another. Reflections presented in this paper were particularly inspired by Freud’s work on Group psychology and analysis of the ego and approaches to the chaos theory, especially, the fact that groups emerge as systems that exhibit unstable, aperiodic and highly complex behavior, with a tendency to self-organization.

KEYWORDS

Group Phenomena; Psychoanalytic Theory; Identification; Chaos Theory

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C. Capitão, "Freud’s Theory and the Group Mind Theory: Formulations," Open Journal of Medical Psychology, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2014, pp. 24-35. doi: 10.4236/ojmp.2014.31003.

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