“In Freud's crowd, the individuals fasten on an object, substitute it for their ego ideal, and all those with the same ego ideal identify themselves with each other in their ego. Remove the object and you get anxiety.”

—  George Goodman

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 4, Is the Market Really A Crowd?, p. 49

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American author and economics commentator 1930–2014

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