Chapter 7

Abelard,153,283.Absolute, the,143.Absolutism,133,144.Abstract ideas,2,49,160.---- function of,154,155.Adler, Dr. Alfred,59.——The Neurotic Constitution,20,61,63.(Translated by Bernard Glueck and John A. Land; Moffat, Yard & Co., New York, 1917.)Adventist,211.(See also Messianism.)Age of Reason,209.Agitators,192.Alcoholic neurosis,86.Alice in Wonderland,2.Ambition,66.America, conformist spirit in,275.—— crowd movements in,53.—— democracy in,253,280.—— education in,273,280.—— freedom of opinion in,268.—— leadership in,275.—— present condition,189.American colonists,52.—— Declaration of Independence,196.—— democracy, mental habits in,272.—— revolution,225.Americanism,87.Americanisation propaganda,108.Anabaptists,225.Analytical psychology,12,294.(See also Psychoanalysis, Freud, Jung, Adler, Brill, The Unconscious.)Anselm,153.a prioriideas in paranoia,67.Arbitrary power, limits of,246.Aristocrats,182.Armenians, persecution of,107.Armistice, the,115.Athletic contests,82.—— events, symbols of conflict,113.Atlantic Monthly,258.Attention,36.—— direction of,29.—— function of,58.Augustine, Saint,153,270.Bacon, Francis,153.Baker, Secretary Newton D.,117,119.Beethoven,175,269.Behavior, social,5.Belief, crowd a creature of,31.Beliefs, as ends in themselves,33.—— crowd professions of,195.Berger, Victor,265.Bergson, Henri,153.—— on sleep,57.——Creative Evolution,211,299.(Translated by Arthur Mitchell; Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1911.)——TimeandFree Will,290.(Translated by F. L. Pogson; George Allen & Co., London, 1912.)Bible,270.Birth control,239.Boccaccio,270.Bolshevism,166,186,207.(See also Soviets, Revolution, Russia.)Bolshevist propaganda,228.Bourgeois,170,225.Brill, Dr.A. A.,59.——Psychoanalysis; Its Theories and Application(W. B.Saunders, Philadelphia, Pa.),55,61,93,133,135.British Labor Party,226.Butler, Samuel,283.Byron,62.Cæsar Borgia,233.Calvin,225.Capitalism,177,178.Carlyle,258.——Heroes and Hero Worshipers,175.——Sartor Resartus,46.Cassanova,270.Categorical imperative,90.Catholics,264.—— in England,225.Censorships,239.Cervantes,283.Chautauqua, the,272.Chauvanism,223.Chesterton,G. K.,135.Chicago, riot in,107.Child, egoism of,62.Christianity, primitive,193,209.Church, the,83,114,170,234.Cicero,188.Citizen, the,248.Civilization, continuity of,216.Class, the master,177.—— struggle,43.(See also Revolution.)Classics, the,292.Clergy of Middle Ages,230.Collective Mind,15.College students, egoism of,78,79.Communion of the saints,83.Compensation,120.—— mechanisms of,84.Complex formations, causes of,65.Compromise mechanisms,71.Compulsive hatred,112.—— thinking,71,102.Conflict, psychic,3.—— within the psyche,70.Conformist spirit,275.Conformity, insisted upon by crowds,266.Conscientious objector,120.Consciousness,57.Conservatism of the crowd-mind,224.Conservative crowds,191.Conspiracy, delusion of,105.(See also Paranoia, Projection, Persecution.)Constantine,234.Constituent assembly, French,186.Constitution,247,249.Constitutional government,235.Convert, the,86.Conway, Sir Martin,17,181.——The Crowd in Peace and War.(Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1915.)Co-operation,226.Co-operative commonwealth,209.Cooper Union Forum,25,26,265,240.Counter crowds,198.Couthon,206.Creative Intelligence,298.Cromwell, Oliver,225.Crowd, the,6.—— against some one,113.(See also Hatred, Paranoia, Delusion of Persecution, Projection.)—— a creature of belief,31.—— a state of mind,19.—— compulsive thinking of,71,102.—— defined,5.—— delusion of conspiracy in,105.—— delusion of persecution,99.—— dogma of equality in,175.—— dominant,35,177.—— effect on social peace,8.—— effect on the individual,8.—— ego mania of,74.—— enemy of personality,159.—— ethics of,90.—— fear and suspicion in,104.—— function of ideals in,84.—— hates in order that it may believe in itself,132.—— hatred, a motive of self-defense,113,125.—— homicidal tendencies of,106-107.—— ideal of society,267.—— idealism of,160.—— idealizes itself,43.—— itself absolute,161.—— its resentment of educated man,172.—— movements in America,53.—— moral,124.—— moral dilemmas of,88.—— motives in education,271,272.—— notions of equality,262.—— parental function of,44.—— restrictions upon freedom,25.—— rumor in,104.—— self-deception of,54.—— self-pity in,101.—— sense of responsibility in,100.—— transference phenomenon, a136,138.—— truths area prioriconcepts,141.—— tyranny in,101.—— tyranny of,235.—— unconscious egoism of,73.—— unconscious motives of,51.—— virtues and vices of,88.—— virtues of,164.Crowd-behavior, in a democracy,242.—— pseudo-social,22.Crowd-ethics,267.Crowd-ideas, abstract,49.Crowd-ideas, moral significance of,35.—— pathology of,37.—— phenomenon of attention in,36.—— ready made,26.Crowd man, a dogmatist,140.Crowd mentality,5.Crowd-mind—and paranoia,92.—— absolutism of,chapter vi,133.—— conservatism of,224.—— distorts patriotism,111.—— influence upon education,277.—— orthodoxy of,152.—— similarity—to paranoia,98.—— tendency to exaggerate,100.Crowd morality,35,157-158.—— demands a victim,106.Crowd orator,99.Crowd-propaganda,289.Crowd-thinking—conservative,191.—— destructive tendencies of,163.—— finality of,44.—— function of,191.—— intensified by revolution,223.—— logic of,140.—— not creative,217.—— pageantry of,215.—— quest of "magic formulas,"150.—— rationalisation of,150-151.—— wanting in intellectual curiosity,271.Crowds, claim to infallibility,234.—— counter,198.—— credulity of,139-140.—— dictatorship of,183.—— dignity of,83.—— disintegration of,195.—— dominant,168.—— faith of,126.—— function of ideas in,155-156.—— hostility to freedom,200.—— idealism of,112.—— illiberalism of,276.—— in modern society,7.—— liberty of,266.—— Messianic faith of,201.—— permanent,42.—— phenomenon of displacement in,116.—— resist disintegration,129.—— revolutionary,180.—— revolutionary phenomena in,203.—— self-adulation of,77.—— self-feeling in,170.—— slow to learn,193.—— spirit of,298.—— will to dominance,79.Curiosity of crowds,271.Darwin,225,269.Day dreams,84.Day of the Lord,202.Debs, Eugene V.,265.Decalogue,90.Defense-mechanism,94.Deists,264.Delusion of conspiracy,105.(See also Paranoia, Persecution.)—— of grandeur,92.(See also Paranoia, Egoism, Self-feeling.)—— of persecution,68,69,92,99.(See also Paranoia, Projection, Hate.)Democracy,178,266,282.—— crowd behavior in,242.—— genius in,268.—— in America,253,272,280.—— law in,268.—— lawmaking power in,247.—— liberty in,248,261-267.—— mental habits of,287.—— not synonymous with liberty,242.Democratic constitutions,235.Democrats,264.Demons,95.Demon worship,97.Demosthenes,62.Department of Justice, United States,240.Determination, unconscious,5.Determinism, psychological motives of,149.Devil, the,114.Dewey, John,Ethics, by Dewey and Tufts (Henry Holt & Co., New York. 1910),89.——Essays in Experimental Logic(University of Chicago Press, 1916),142.——- Creative Intelligence (Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1917),298.——Democracy and Education(The Macmillan Company, New York, 1916),288-289,290,291.Dias,194.Dictatorship,222.Dictatorship of crowds,183.Dictatorship of the proletariat,193,228,229-232.Dignity of crowds,83.(See also Egoism.)Disguise, mechanisms of,73.Disintegration of crowds,129,195.Dogma of infallibility,234.Dogmatism,140.Dominant crowd,177.Dostoievsky,270.——The Brothers Karamasov,233.Dream, the,34.—— fancies,58.—— of Paradise,207.—— of social redemption,232.—— of world set free,222.Dreams,57,84.—— disguise in,73.Dreiser, Theodore,265.——The Genius,265.DuBois,W. F. B.,121.Duty,161.East St. Louis, riot in,107.Eastman, Max,264.Economic system,213.Economics, science of,185.Educated man, crowds resentment of,172.Education,chapter x,281.—— crowd motive in,271-272.—— of present day,288.—— religious,153.—— the new,284,286,289.—— traditional,292.—— traditional systems,277,278.Ego, consciousness,70.(See also Self-feeling.)—— mania,74.Egoism of the neurotic,61.—— unconscious,73.Eighteenth amendment to Constitution of United States,236,265.Emerson,9,269,283,302.Emotion, theory of,18.Empiricism,297.England, political liberty in,226.—— Socialism in,227.Environment, social,35.Epicurus,153.Equality,175,262.Erasmus,283.Espionage, in United States,241.Ethic, of Kant,162.Ethics,267.—— of crowd,90.Europe, present condition in,189.Evangelists,114.(See also Sunday, William.)Evolution,212.—— doctrines of,210.Exaggeration of crowd-mind,100.Exodus of children of Israel,52.Exploitation,170,177.Extroversion,303.Fads,224.Faguet,The Cult of Incompetence,17.(Translated by Beatrice Barstow; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1916.)——The Dread of Responsibility,266.(Translated by Emily James; G. P. Putnams Sons, New York, 1914.)Faith,126.Fanaticism,86.Fear,104,128.Feeling of importance,82.(See also Egoism.)Female neurotic,98.Fichte,152.Fiction of justification,106.Fictions,20,128.Fictitious logic,198.


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