A Group (n.) is grounded in hate. It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.
A Group (n.) is, when it has a leader, a set of people who have put the same person in place of their super-ego and so identify with one another.
The Group (n.) lets the individual throw off the repression of unconscious impulses; its seemingly new traits are expressions of an unconscious that holds all human evil as a predisposition.
The Group (n.) is impulsive, changeable and irritable, cannot bear any delay between wish and fulfilment, and feels omnipotent: for it, impossibility vanishes.
The Group (n.) knows neither doubt nor uncertainty: a suspicion becomes certainty, a trace of dislike becomes furious hatred.
The Group (n.) is as intolerant as it is obedient, respects force, takes kindness for weakness, and wants to be ruled and to fear its masters.
The Group (n.) is a revival of the primal horde: as primitive man survives in every individual, the horde can re-form from any random crowd.