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This is episode 382. Part two, we've been talking about Freud's group psychology and the analysis of the ego. I think it spent plenty of time on the psychology of crowds and how they make us dumber and trying to figure out whether, given that we're where we live in the age of the internet where crowds are not

gathered together they're asynchronous there are people listening to their podcasts and their

newsreels and things newsreels we just went back 60 years all those are more than that

their little Instagram stories that's what I mean. Film strips.

Film strips.

Going through their micro-fiche in the privacy of their own public library basements.

We are dating ourselves as Gen Xers for sure.

The enemy is on the march in Europe.

Can we still be a crowd and have crowd psychology in that respect?

To what extent are the various

kinds of organized groups, which is what, you know, Freud wants to immediately get into,

can they be analyzed in terms of the same mechanisms as crowds?

So we were going to shift to like the weird way that Freud gives his own explanations, not just these common sense

things that, you know, of the other authors that he wants to say, you know, they're fine.

But so this is before he came up with the death drive, right, Wes, this book?

I think so.

So this is 1921.

Okay.

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