Full name: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Author: Gustave Le Bon Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9780486419565 0486419568

The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. Organised crowds have always played an important part in the life of peoples, but this part has never been of such moment as at present. The substitution of the unconscious action of crowds for the conscious activity of individuals is one of the principal characteristics of the present age.Crowds, doubtless, are always unconscious, but this very unconsciousness is perhaps one of the secrets of their strength. In the natural world beings exclusively governed by instinct accomplish acts whose marvellous complexity astounds us. Reason is an attribute of humanity of too recent date and still too imperfect to reveal to us the laws of the unconscious, and still more to take its place. The part played by the unconscious in all our acts is immense, and that played by reason very small. The unconscious acts like a force still unknown. Similar books: The Sane Society by Erich Fromm Vital Lies, Simple Truths by Daniel Goleman 50 Psychology Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon Psychology by Gillian Butler Introduction to psychology by Dennis Coon Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson Introducing Psychology by Nigel Benson 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know by Adrian Furnham The Social Animal by David Brooks The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram He by Robert A. Johnson No Two Alike by Judith Rich Harris Our Inner Conflicts by Karen Horney The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave Le Bon The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Quiet by Susan Cain