Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego prioritises the model of artificial groups with leaders. However, I contend that coloniality challenges this priority. Fanon’s ‘Series B’ cases in The Wretched of the Earth expose how coloniality induces an unconscious collective that entwines individuals to a total yet diffuse social situation; this is a different kind of group from that considered in Freud’s text. This conceptualisation permits a transvaluation of group psychology. This transvaluation entails the transference of the value and meaning of group psychology from one scene to another without losing the generic character of psychoanalytic theory.
Source: Psychoanalysis Culture & Society
Author: Holden M. Rasmussen
Institution: Newcastle University
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,690
OpenAlex ID: W7166164977