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Quotation from Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud
“A soldier cries out: "The general has lost his head!" and thereupon all the Assyrians take to flight”
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Ch. V, trans. James Strachey (1922)
Citing Nestroy's parody of Hebbel's Judith, Freud illustrates panic as the collapse of the tie to the leader and therefore of the ties among the members.
Citation: "A soldier cries out: "The general has lost his head!" and thereupon all the Assyrians take to flight" — Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Ch. V, trans. James Strachey (1922). (id freud-group-psychology-q3)
