Mass movements in Darwinist, Freudian and Marxist perspective. Trotter, Freud and Reich on war, revolution and reaction 1900-1933
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This study tracks the social construction of the new discipline of ‘crowd’ or ‘mass’ psychology in Europe over a lifetime and proceeds with an analysis of the influential theorists from Great Britain, Austria-Hungary and Germany between 1900 and 1933: Trotter, Freud, and Reich. The decades when these studies on the mass were published, were dominated by a gradual drift toward world war, followed by communist revolution and fascist reaction. English-language publications about them often erase or misundersta…
This study tracks the social construction of the new discipline of ‘crowd’ or ‘mass’ psychology in Europe over a lifetime and proceeds with an analysis of the influential theorists from Great Britain, Austria-Hungary and Germany between 1900 and 1933: Trotter, Freud, and Reich. The decades when these studies on the mass were published, were dominated by a gradual drift toward world war, followed by communist revolution and fascist reaction. English-language publications about them often erase or misunderstand this history to this very day even though they are both theoretically important and original, and merits serious consideration.


