Intrapsychic processes mirror the structure of interpersonal relations

Evidence

It is an old observation that the conceptions of the single individual, with all their relations of association and dissociation, differentiation, and unification, behave in the same way in which individuals behave in regard to one another. It is merely a peculiar case of this correspondence that those intra- psychological relations are repeated, not only between individ- uals in general, but also between the individual and his group. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6431

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the theme of internalizing social triadic relationships; connects to Raskolnikov’s internalization of society’s judgment and to the premise that the individual repeats group relationships within consciousness.