John Flügel

John Flugel (13 June 1884 – 6 August 1955), was a British experimental psychologist and a practising psychoanalyst.

[1] Flügel's book Psychoanalytic Study of the Family (1921) was acclaimed by Eric Berne for its insights into the Oedipus complex.

[2] He also published Men and their Motives (1934) and The Psychology of Clothes (1930),[3] the latter continuing to influence thinking on the subject into the 21st century.

[4] In Man, Morals and Society (1945), Flugel charted a movement from egocentrism to social awareness by way of what he saw as a hierarchy of expanding loyalties.

[5] Reaching back to his old mentor, he also highlighted “the distinction that McDougall has sometimes made between an 'ideal', which is little more than an intellectual assent to a moral proposition, and a 'sentiment', which involves a real mobilisation”.