to the rather more comprehensive German 'Masse'. The author uses this latter word to render both McDougall's 'group', and also Le Bon's 'foule', which would more naturally be translated 'crowd' in English. For the sake of uniformity, however, 'group' has been preferred in this case as well, and has been substituted for 'crowd' even in the extracts from the English translation of Le Bon.-Translator.^ 2A Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego model, as an object, as a helper, as an opponent, and so from the very first Individual Psychology is at the same time Social Psychology as wellin this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words. The relations of an individual to his parents and to his brothers and sisters, to the object of his-love, and to his physicianin fact all the relations which have hitherto been the chief subject of psychoanalytic researchmay claim to be considered as social phenomena; and in this respect they may be contrasted with certain other processes, described by us as 'narcissistic', in which the satisfaction of the instincts is partially or totally withdrawn from the influence of other people. The contrast between soci^r..and-^-jpeissistjc-Bleuler would perhaps call them 'autistic/-mental acts therefore falls wholly within the domain of Individual Psychology, and is not well calculated to differentiate it from a Social or Group Psychology. The individual in the relations which have already been mentionedto his parents and to his brqthers and sisters, to the person he is in love with, to his friend, and to his physiciancomes under the influence of only a single person, or of a very small number of persons, each one of whom has become enormously important to him. Now in speaking of Social or Group Psychology it has become usual to leave these relations on one side and to isolate as the subject of [References are to the English translation.-Translator.] ' [An idiom meaning 'for their sake'. Literally: 'for love of them'.-Translator^
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