Conformity

Freud's monograph on the tension between individual psychology and social experience is described in terms of the structural hypothesis. Freud articulates a structure of personality that comprises one ancillary and three principal components: the ego, superego, and id, plus the libido. Freud defines each component operationally, explaining how each component contributes to the shaping of individual personality and of human interaction. Whatever is external to the individual personality may be configured as society, family, or culture. The idea of more or less permanent tension between the individuals and what is external to them appears to have evolved over time with Freud, such that the context for individual psychological processes to unfold achieved increasing importance. Thus for example in an essay on psychoanaly

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ctions," and not solely in the lower classes. One could say that industrial society per se exerts a dehumanizing effect, although dehumanization in a context of modern complexity may come from various sources. Ironically, anomie may proceed from the profoundly felt influences of the collective sensibility: Collective tendencies have an existence of their own; they are forces as real as cosmic forces, though of another sort; they, likewise, affect the individual from without, though through other channels (Durkheim, 1951, p. 309). Durkheim assigns the term anomic suicide to that which "results from man's activity's lacking regulation and his consequent suffering" (Durkheim, 1951, p. 258). He takes the view that the society influences the shaping of individuals, not the other way around. Anomie understood in this formulation is the response to the message that leaves one unsatisfied, perhaps because of poor material conditions, perhaps because of racism perhaps because one is a member of some out-group or other. Compounding the irony is that suicide, the logical extreme to which the anomic individual would resort, has, as Durkheim points out, been considered a crime against society--the structure and details of which may have fost
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