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This edition brings to you Le Bon's two most celebrated works, "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" and "The Psychology of Revolution", which made a breakthrough in what is now known as crowd psychology. Le Bon theorised about a new entity, "psychological crowd", which emerges from incorporating the assembled population not only forms a new body but also creates a collective "unconsciousness". As a group of people gather together and coalesces to form a crowd, there is a "magnetic influence given out by the crowd" that transmutes every individual's behaviour until it becomes governed by the "group mind"._x000D_ Gustave Le Bon was a French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. Ignored or maligned by sections of the French academic and scientific establishment during his life due to his politically conservative and reactionary views, Le Bon was critical of democracy and socialism. Le Bon's works were influential to such disparate figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Benito Mussolini, Sigmund Freud and José Ortega y Gasset, Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin.
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GenrePsychology
Length15 hrs 35 mins
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Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
24Chapter III. The Revolutionary and Criminal Mentalities
2Introduction. The Era of Crowds
25Chapter IV. The Psychology of Revolutionary Crowds
3Chapter I. General Characteristics of Crowds.—Psychological Law of Their Mental Unity.
26Chapter V. The Psychology of the Revolutionary Assemblies
4Chapter II. The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds
27Part II. The French Revolution
5Chapter III. The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds
28Chapter I. The Opinions of Historians Concerning the French Revolution
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6Chapter IV. A Religious Shape Assumed by All the Convictions of Crowds
29Chapter II. The Psychological Foundations of the Ancien Regime
7Chapter I. Remote Factors of the Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds
30Chapter III. Mental Anarchy at the Time of the Revolution and the Influence Attributed to the Philosophers
8Chapter II. The Immediate Factors of the Opinions of Crowds
31Chapter IV. Psychological Illusions Respecting the French Revolution
9Chapter III. The Leaders of Crowds and Their Means of Persuasion
32Chapter I. The Psychology of the Constituent Assembly
10Chapter IV. Limitations of the Variability of the Beliefs and Opinions of Crowds
33Chapter II. The Psychology of the Legislative Assembly
11Chapter I. The Classification of Crowds
34Chapter III. The Psychology of the Convention
12Chapter II. Crowds Termed Criminal Crowds
35Chapter IV. The Government of the Convention
13Chapter III. Criminal Juries
36Chapter V. Instances of Revolutionary Violence
14Chapter IV. Electoral Crowds
37Chapter VI. The Armies of the Revolution
15Chapter V. Parliamentary Assemblies
38Chapter VII. Psychology of the Leaders of the Revolution
16Introduction. The Revision of History
39Chapter I. The Last Convulsions of Anarchy—The Directory
17Part I. The Psychological Elements of Revolutionary Movements
40Chapter II. The Restoration of Order. The Consular Republic
18Chapter I. Scientific and Political Revolutions
41Chapter III. Political Consequences of the Conflict Between Traditions and Revolutionary Principles During the Last Century
19Chapter II. Religious Revolutions
42Chapter I. The Progress of Democratic Beliefs Since the Revolution
20Chapter III. The Action of Governments in Revolutions
43Chapter II. The Results of Democratic Evolution
21Chapter IV. The Part Played by the People in Revolutions
44Chapter III. The New Forms of Democratic Belief
22Chapter I. Individual Variations of Character in Time of Revolution
45Conclusions
23Chapter II. The Mystic Mentality and the Jacobin Mentality