The psychology and politics of the collective [electronic resource] : groups, crowds, and mass identifications / edited by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas.

Psychoanalysis and the group
Brother animal's long tail : Sigmund Freud, Victor Tausk and intellectual influence / Mandy Merck
Mass enjoyment and the society of the camp : the revised case of Dorian Gray / Josiane Paccaud-Huguet
Interview with Ernesto Laclau / Conducted by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
What's in a crowd?
Crowds, agency and passion : reconsidering the roots of the social bond / Stephen Reicher
"A swinish multitude" versus "a crowd of golden daffodils" / Jina Politi
The masses as a "vanishing mediator" : class and politics in Duan Kovacevic's the Professional / Sean Homer
Global networks and mass identifications
Globality, the totalitarian mass, and national belonging / Effie Yiannopoulou
Geographies of cultural globalization and cosmopolitanisms of the future / Joseph Michael Gratale
"Touching everyone" : media identifications, imagined communities and new media technologies in the case of madeleine mccann / Nicola Rehling
Swarm intelligence : blogging and on-line subjectivities / Holger Briel
Epilogue: pluralities to come
Ruth parkin-gounelas
Contributors
References
Index.