The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Russian Edition]

Written by Gustave Le Bon

Narrated by Petr Taganov

“The Crowd” - one of the greatest works on psychology, in which one of the most prominent French psychologists Gustave Le Bon, trying to understand and put on the shelves the regularities of behavior of crowds of people - the crowd.
In this case, Le Bon divides a simple “crowd of people” from the “animated crowd”, the spontaneous formation of which begins to obey completely different laws than each and any of the individuals entering this society. According to the author, such a “animated crowd” can be formed even with the number of 6 persons or more. All the properties of a personality in such “formation” recede into the background. Everything logical, self-centered and personal in such a mass of people is instantly suppressed by the individuals themselves, and completely other properties of people - subconscious ones - come out. Feelings and emotions of all those included in such “formation” are close to primitive and instinctive emotions and reactions. Moreover, such a “crowd” does not show and does not know other traits. At the same time, along with base and animal emotions, the animated crowd often has aspirations to fatal self-sacrifice and self-denial.
Such “formation” begins to resemble an unconscious animal, which, obviously, can be controlled like an animal trainer in a circus. The role of trainers begins to be played by “leaders”. And the “animated crowd” trained by them turns into an engine capable of transforming social and political reality in the most fundamental way, both regionally and globally!

• Language: Русский
• Publisher: Audiobooks for Everyone
• Release date: Sep 14, 2024
• ISBN: 9798875175220

Gustave Le Bon

Gustave Le Bon est un médecin, anthropologue, psychologue social et sociologue français. Polygraphe, intervenant dans des domaines variés, il est l'auteur de 43 ouvrages en 60 ans, traduits en une dizaine de langues de son vivant et plusieurs fois réédités entre 1890 et 1920, dans lesquels il aborde, parmi d'autres sujets, le désordre comportemental et la psychologie des foules. Le Bon participe par la suite activement à la vie intellectuelle française. En 1902, il crée la Bibliothèque de philosophie scientifique chez Flammarion, qui est un vrai succès d'édition, avec plus de 220 titres publiés et plus de deux millions de livres vendus à la mort de Le Bon en 1931. À partir de 1902 il organise une série de « déjeuners du mercredi » auxquels sont conviées des personnalités telles que Henri et Raymond Poincaré, Paul Valéry, Émile Picard, Camille Saint-Saëns, Marie Bonaparte, Aristide Briand, Henri Bergson, etc. Il convie également à ces déjeuners la comtesse Greffulhe, icône de la Belle-Époque et inspiratrice de Proust pour À la recherche du temps perdu, avec qui il entretient une correspondance aussi abondante que familière.