Friday, June 10, 2022, 17:00 to 19:30 h, and
Saturday, June 11, 2022, 10:00 to 19:00 h


Conference in English and German with Ricardo Ainslie, Giuseppina Antinucci, Lene Auestad, Helmut Dahmer, Francisco J. González, Earl Hopper, Ranjanna Khanna, Sama Maani, Ulrike May, Gail Newman, Wolfgang Martin Roth, and Jan de Vos

In the Sigmund Freud Museum and via Zoom

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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

101 years ago, Sigmund Freud published his essay Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego which is characterized by an analytic scrutiny of the transformation of the individual to a group being and raises the following questions: What defines the “group”, what keeps it together? What kind of satisfaction can being-absorbed-into-the-crowd provide? Which unconscious mechanisms and psychic phenomena are at work when a multitude of individuals submits to a “leader”? Current crowd and group formations also allow us to (re)discover psychic processes and mechanisms that Freud has already described in 1921: compliance, hypnosis, regression, idealization, identification, and fusion with the Other. Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego thus provides a framework for this international conference “Thoughts for the Times on Groups and Masses” at the Sigmund Freud Museum, which will examine current group and mass phenomena in the real as well as the virtual world, reflecting their numerous interconnections from psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary perspectives and putting them up for discussion.