Gustave Le Bon
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Science
- Subcategories: Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, French History
Article abstract: Although Le Bon is known primarily for his unique work in crowd psychology, he is still remembered by some—not always favorably—for his work on the unconscious mind, his writing in medicine, his controversial theories of race, his books on anthropology and archaeology, his treatise on the training of horses, his explorations into black light and the equivalence of matter and energy, and his writing on the composition of tobacco smoke.
Early Life
Gustave Le Bon was born into a bourgeois family of civil servants in the farming town of...
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