فهرست مطالب
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Series Foreword
Introduction
1. Nineteenth-century crowd psychology
Modernity and the construction of the concept of the individual
From the individual to the crowd in the nineteenth century
The nineteenth century and the zenith of European civilization: perspectives and fears
Crowd psychology in the nineteenth century
Gabriel Tarde: the laws of imitation, the science of opinion, and the crowd
Gustave Le Bon and crowd psychology
2. Twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology
From crowd to mass psychology in the twentieth century
Sigmund Freud’s mass psychology
The mass, the unconscious, and the libidinal tie
The drive circuit in group ties: an economic point of view
The illusory nature of group formations
The legacy of Freud’s mass psychology
3. Twentieth-century left-wing mass psychology
Freudo-Marxism
The Frankfurt School and mass psychology
Two critical contributions to Freud’s mass psychology: Lukács and Adorno
4. Reflections on a society of individuals
Interweaving theories
The sociology of Georg Simmel
The study of socialization (Vergesellschaftung) or sociation in individual-society relations
Norbert Elias and the interdependent individuals
The individualization and the we–I balance in The Society of Individuals
The concept of figuration
Approximations between Simmel and Elias
Towards a society of persons
5. The Northfield experiments: the cradle of group work in England
The Northfield experiments: some early influences
The Northfield experiments: 1942–1946
Rickman and Bion: the first experiment
Bridger, Main, and Foulkes: the second experiment
Legacies
6. Group relations and Bion’s legacy
After World War II
The creation of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Bion’s basic-assumption group and the work group
The creation of the group relations conferences
7. Towards new basic assumptions in groups
A new world Zeitgeist for group work
Towards the postulation of new basic assumptions
Pierre Turquet: the theory of Oneness
Lawrence, Bain, and Gould: the Me-ness theory
8. Foulkes and group analysis: the development of the theory of the social unconscious
Foulkes and group analysis
The internalization of the external world and the notion of social unconscious
The “social a priori” and the social unconscious
Group analysis and the social unconscious
From mind to matrix
Tripartite matrices
Perspectives on the social unconscious and large groups
9. Large-group psychodynamics in group analysis
Mapping the field
Size and setting
Perspectives in group-analytic large groups
The psychodynamics of large groups
Patrick de Maré’s perspectives
Challenges in group-analytic large groups
Conducting/convening large groups
Experiences in large groups in group analysis
Contemporary experiences in group-analytic large groups
10. Traumatic experience in the unconscious life of social
systems: Earl Hopper’s theory of the fourth basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
Introduction
From Cohesion to Incohesion
“Notes” on the Theory and Concept of the Fourth Basic Assumption in the Unconscious Life of Groups and Group-like Social Systems: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
Comment on Hopper’s “Notes” on the Theory and Concept of the Fourth Basic Assumption in the Unconscious Life of Groups and Group-like Social Systems: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
“A fourth basic assumption”
Bi-polar sociocultural states of Incohesion and the dialectics without synthesis in tripartite matrices
Personification in Incohesion processes
Identity, social identity and recognition in the Incohesion
theory
Some further implications of the theory of (ba) I: A/M
Epilogue
References
Index
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Series Foreword
Introduction
1. Nineteenth-century crowd psychology
Modernity and the construction of the concept of the individual
From the individual to the crowd in the nineteenth century
The nineteenth century and the zenith of European civilization: perspectives and fears
Crowd psychology in the nineteenth century
Gabriel Tarde: the laws of imitation, the science of opinion, and the crowd
Gustave Le Bon and crowd psychology
2. Twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology
From crowd to mass psychology in the twentieth century
Sigmund Freud’s mass psychology
The mass, the unconscious, and the libidinal tie
The drive circuit in group ties: an economic point of view
The illusory nature of group formations
The legacy of Freud’s mass psychology
3. Twentieth-century left-wing mass psychology
Freudo-Marxism
The Frankfurt School and mass psychology
Two critical contributions to Freud’s mass psychology: Lukács and Adorno
4. Reflections on a society of individuals
Interweaving theories
The sociology of Georg Simmel
The study of socialization (Vergesellschaftung) or sociation in individual-society relations
Norbert Elias and the interdependent individuals
The individualization and the we–I balance in The Society of Individuals
The concept of figuration
Approximations between Simmel and Elias
Towards a society of persons
5. The Northfield experiments: the cradle of group work in England
The Northfield experiments: some early influences
The Northfield experiments: 1942–1946
Rickman and Bion: the first experiment
Bridger, Main, and Foulkes: the second experiment
Legacies
6. Group relations and Bion’s legacy
After World War II
The creation of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Bion’s basic-assumption group and the work group
The creation of the group relations conferences
7. Towards new basic assumptions in groups
A new world Zeitgeist for group work
Towards the postulation of new basic assumptions
Pierre Turquet: the theory of Oneness
Lawrence, Bain, and Gould: the Me-ness theory
8. Foulkes and group analysis: the development of the theory of the social unconscious
Foulkes and group analysis
The internalization of the external world and the notion of social unconscious
The “social a priori” and the social unconscious
Group analysis and the social unconscious
From mind to matrix
Tripartite matrices
Perspectives on the social unconscious and large groups
9. Large-group psychodynamics in group analysis
Mapping the field
Size and setting
Perspectives in group-analytic large groups
The psychodynamics of large groups
Patrick de Maré’s perspectives
Challenges in group-analytic large groups
Conducting/convening large groups
Experiences in large groups in group analysis
Contemporary experiences in group-analytic large groups
10. Traumatic experience in the unconscious life of social
systems: Earl Hopper’s theory of the fourth basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
Introduction
From Cohesion to Incohesion
“Notes” on the Theory and Concept of the Fourth Basic Assumption in the Unconscious Life of Groups and Group-like Social Systems: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
Comment on Hopper’s “Notes” on the Theory and Concept of the Fourth Basic Assumption in the Unconscious Life of Groups and Group-like Social Systems: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
“A fourth basic assumption”
Bi-polar sociocultural states of Incohesion and the dialectics without synthesis in tripartite matrices
Personification in Incohesion processes
Identity, social identity and recognition in the Incohesion
theory
Some further implications of the theory of (ba) I: A/M
Epilogue
References
Index
