ABSTRACT
This chapter draws out from each libidinal stage what may be understood as omnipotence fantasies. Fantasies arising from the situations are of an exclusive, narcissistic nature: the world and oneself are conflated, resulting in the idea. In Stefan Zweig writings, with great skill, he presents a description of the characteristics of the initiation of fanaticism, of how it evolves, and the strategies that are employed to convince a large number of people, who are most probably not fanatics, to commit destructive and deadly acts. The violence associated with expulsion, and the effort of retaining, also contribute to imbuing this act with a semblance of power, which is inherent in omnipotence. Psychoanalysis is a mental activity that is never completed and and continues throughout the lifetime. Freud bases the effect that the group produces in the individual on three causes: mental contagion, suggestibility, and the identification of the group mind with the mind of primitive people.
