The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / by
《Crowds: A Study of the Popular Mind》[Fr.] Gustave Le Bon / author, Feng Keli / translator, Zhongyang Bianyi Press, 2004.1 This book, written in 1895, was judged by Freud to be “a truly great work” and “an exquisitely detailed description of the collective mentality”; the great American social psychologist Allport went even further, calling it the most “influential” work in the field of psychology to date. And yet this book has also drawn an enormous amount of controversy and refutation. Clearly, it is a book full of prejudice, but that cannot erase its profound insights and far-reaching influence. Le Bon points out that once an individual enters a group, his…
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