Social forms generate corresponding inner feelings, reversing the usual direction

Evidence

In psychological association in general, once imagination B is tied to imagination A, there also develops the opposite effect: A is called into consciousness wherever B is. Analogously, the sociological form of a given relationship produces, in the manner indicated, the inner state of feeling that corresponds to it, although ordinarily the process runs in the opposite direction. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9148

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Williams coined ‘structure of feeling’ to bridge the social-personal split — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 88; Desires that feel innermost often derive from internalized social conventions. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 292