This conversation, originally in Italian, was centred on the book by Sergio Benvenuto, Soggetto e masse, Castelvecchi, 2022 (The Subject and the Masses. Freud’s Group Psychology).

In 1921, a year after the publication of “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”[1], Freud published an essay entitled “Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse”, “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego”. 

A century later, what has remained of the important reflections it contains?