TY - BOOK AU - Campi,Édith TI - Male Associations PY - 2012///. N1 - 16 N2 - 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 UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-figures-de-la-psy-2012-1-page-147?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -