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Quotation from Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud
“Let us venture, then, to correct Trotter's pronouncement that man is a herd animal and assert that he is rather a horde animal, an individual creature in a horde led by a chief”
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Ch. IX, trans. James Strachey (1922)
Freud's answer to the theory of a herd instinct: group life depends on a chief, not merely on gregariousness.
Citation: "Let us venture, then, to correct Trotter's pronouncement that man is a herd animal and assert that he is rather a horde animal, an individual creature in a horde led by a chief" — Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Ch. IX, trans. James Strachey (1922). (id freud-group-psychology-q5)
