ABSTRACT
The four dimensions of the authenticity or fulfillment of an individual identity can be useful, mutatis mutandis, also in order to reconstruct our intuitions concerning the realization of collective identities. When we evaluate the fulfillment or authenticity of a collective identity, we use concepts and address questions that are somehow related, though of course they are couched in a different vocabulary, to the intuitions about the good which I have tried to reconstruct from within the vocabulary of psychoanalytic theory in the previous chapter. However, before discussing the relevance of the notions of coherence, vitality, depth and maturity for the case of collective identities, a number of features that characterize any superindividual identity should be briefly highlighted.
