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Quotation from Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud
“In the individual's mental life someone else is invariably involved, as a 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 well”
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Ch. I, trans. James Strachey (1922)
Freud's opening refusal to separate the psychology of the individual from the psychology of groups.
Citation: "In the individual's mental life someone else is invariably involved, as a 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 well" — Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Ch. I, trans. James Strachey (1922). (id freud-group-psychology-q1)
