Collective Psychology

[The] tendency toward affective memory is born from the psychological reason of association, according to which what appears once together in the field of the psyche tends to reawaken. In the struggle for survival, this tendency has grown and has been strengthened by human beings. It is certain that by being able to guess the inner emotion of the soul from external signs, one can bring solace to oneself and to others. The empathy, which has a psycho-physiological basis, was developed in the struggle for life. The great task of civilization lies in the perfecting of these external manifestations of