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Our question for episode 383 is still what holds a social group together, because we're still talking about Sagan Freud's group psychology and the analysis of the ego from 1921.

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So I think we got through about chapter seven, is that right?

Identification or was there more from chapter seven?

So there's identification between peers and groups.

I mean, we've alluded to that. Have we really hit that?

I mean, let's give the Freudian explanation for that.

So we have made of the leader or the leading idea, but usually a person, are common object.

And I don't like he actually says this in this section, but maybe it's from a lighter chapter.

We initially, you might think that you would have jealousy regarding that central focus.

And as we're going to get into this discussion, there's the idea of the primal family,

the primal father, the first one who is the dictator overall.

And initially everybody, all the kids want to really relate to that exclusively,

but because they are not allowed to, you know, kill the younger brother, kill the younger siblings,

then they displaced that and they feel identification. They feel a bond with the other instead.

Yeah. So I think overall, just to recap the chapter right, he gives, he gives examples of many

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