Gustave Le Bon — The Crowd

A knowledge base built on Gustave Le Bon's The Crowd: A Study of the
Popular Mind (1896), the founding text of 19th-century crowd psychology — an
English translation of the French original Psychologie des foules (1895).

Analyzes the psychological unity of crowds: how a gathering of individuals acquires
a new, collective mind — the individual dissolves, contagion and suggestibility take
over, thinking reduces to images, and the crowd craves a leader, not freedom. Covers
the core of mass psychology from Book I (The Mind of Crowds) and the mechanics of
power from Book II (The Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds).

Source: lebon.2pub.me