Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) eut un immense succes et inspira jusqu'a Freud. Veritable best-seller, Psychologie des Foules est considere comme un des livres qui ont change le monde au debut du XXe siecle.
Monument historique, il demeure une uvre pionniere de la psychologie sociale et la premiere a interroger brillamment le phenomene de masse qui allait tourmenter le XXe siecle.
Moscovici le considere comme le Machiavel des societes de masses qui, le premier, aura compris l'importance du role (potentiellement destructeur) des foules.
Ce livre est devenu un classique incontournable...

Si l'ouvrage La Psychologie des foules de Gustave Le Bon est toujours celebre. On connait moins La Psychologie politique (1910).
Si le style a plus d'un siecle, l'analyse et la reflexion de Gustave Le Bon meritent une lecture attentive, tant certaines de ses idees sont premonitoires de notre epoque.
Un livre indispensable a toute reflexion politique, sociale, syndicale...

In this fascinating book, Gustave Le Bon examines the psychology of crowds. He posits that crowds have personalities, just like individuals, and that individuals change when part of a crowd.
"The most careful observations seem to prove that an individual immersed for some length of time in a crowd in action soon finds himself-either in consequence of the magnetic influence given out by the crowd, or from some other cause of which we are ignorant-in a special state, which much resembles the state of fascination in which the hypnotized individual finds himself in the hands of the...

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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is psychology study authored by Gustave Le Bon that was first published in 1895. In the book, Le Bon claims that there are several characteristics of crowd psychology: "impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of judgement of the critical spirit, the exaggeration of sentiments, and others..."

Gustave Le Bon (1841 - 1931) was a French social psychologist and physicist who wrote some popular works on crowd psychology.

In The Crowd, Le Bon examines the various characteristics of crowd psychology: "impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of judgment of the critical spirit, the exaggeration of sentiments, and others..." He believes "that an individual immersed for some length of time in a crowd soon finds himself - either in consequence of magnetic influence given out by the crowd or from some other cause of which we are ignorant - in a special state, which much resembles the state of fascination in which the hypnotized individual finds himself in the hands of the hypnotizer.." This...

The Psychology of Revolution is a discussion of religious, political, mental and emotional characteristics of the leaders of revolutions, with special consideration taken from French history. Examples of revolutionary movements also include political upheavals in Portugal, China, and Turkey. Gustave Le Bon was a French social psychologist, sociologist, anthropologist, inventor, and amateur physicist. His writings incorporate theories of national traits, herd behavior and crowd psychology. He is best known for his work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind.

"Psychologie de l'education" de Gustave Le Bon. Anthropologue, psychologue social, sociologue francais (1841-1931)."