Sociology 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Mick Jagger, Paul Kantner, Theodor W. Adorno
17 Apr 2017
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An audience at a rock concert is an example of a community built around the spectacle . but it is often an unstable and volatile community, and it sometimes seems to have more in common with a mob. In the rolling stones" famous free concert at altamont, at which four people died, we see the fragile bonds of community unravelling under the various contradictory pressures at work. Freud on unstable libidinal identification with the leader (from group psychology and the analysis of the ego): In a group the individual is brought under conditions which allow him to throw off the repression of his unconscious instinctual impulses . A little boy will exhibit a special interest in his father; he would like to grow like him and be like him, and take his place everywhere . The little boy notices that his father stands in his way with his mother.
