Male Associations
Campi, Édith
Male Associations - 2012.
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This paper analyzes the universal aspect of male associations and tries to continue Freud’s analysis on mass phenomena not driven by a leader, but by a mass ideal, which acts as a complete or partial substitute for the ego ideal that still carries the “first configuration of love,” or the “ Vatersehnsucht” (the desire for the father). It also focuses on a particular historical period, 19th-century Germany, where male associations became the object of ideological projections. The search for origins and the need to establish a continuity between past and present have contributed to the formation of the German ideology of this period, an ideology that made the “ Männerbund” an ideal of identification.
Male Associations - 2012.
16
This paper analyzes the universal aspect of male associations and tries to continue Freud’s analysis on mass phenomena not driven by a leader, but by a mass ideal, which acts as a complete or partial substitute for the ego ideal that still carries the “first configuration of love,” or the “ Vatersehnsucht” (the desire for the father). It also focuses on a particular historical period, 19th-century Germany, where male associations became the object of ideological projections. The search for origins and the need to establish a continuity between past and present have contributed to the formation of the German ideology of this period, an ideology that made the “ Männerbund” an ideal of identification.
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