Dasein must resist the sway of an impersonal conformity force to live authentically.

Evidence

Dasein, Heidegger wrote there, tends to fall under the sway of something called das Man or ‘the they’ - an impersonal entity that robs us of the freedom to think for ourselves. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 264

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The ego is constituted by resisting the urge to mimic.; Pseudo-existential self-struggle is staged inwardness that masks authoritarian conformity. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 158; Refusal to take a stance on one’s identity is itself a stance. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1238 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The resisting subject is itself produced by the norms it opposes. #complicates (0.82) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 158
• Pseudo-existential self-struggle is staged inwardness that masks authoritarian conformity. #qualifies (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 158
• The ego is constituted by resisting the urge to mimic. #corroborates (0.78)
• Refusal to take a stance on one’s identity is itself a stance. #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1238