 Durkheim claims that social facts have to be accounted for in terms of collective consciousness rather than individual attitudes. His (1898) example of people who are involved in a mass emotion, of which they cannot make sense in terms of their own personal views and feelings, is often quoted as an illustration. Indeed, Durkheim’s view is sometimes even argued to be the direct historical root of the current debate on collective intentionality (Olen/Turner 2015). Durkheim’s remarks on the role of collective consciousness suggest a view of the collective “taking over control” and bypassing individual intentional psychology in the explanation of action (though Durkheim’s views can also be reconstructed along less collectivist lines; see Turner 1986). Durkheim’s work is one of the historical sources for the analysis of collective emotions (von Scheve and Salmela 2014).