Monarchy legitimates itself only against whole persons, not staged role-players

Evidence

If this is the situation, monarchy indeed presupposes for its inner legitimation that the ruler be superior to the total personality of every subject. On the other hand, this is a requirement of which there can be no question where the object of his domination is only the sum of factored-out, “mass-combined” parts of the subordinates. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 5398

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the conceptual contrast between ruling over whole personalities vs. over ‘mass-combined’ extracted parts — the very mechanism at stake in Raskolnikov’s dual witnessing.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core thesis: Sonya and Porfiry receive Raskolnikov’s total personality, not just his ‘legal’ guilt — he cannot be factored out.