[JasonTakeshi]

The Individual, the Group, and Mankind

"Anthropological theory of personality and culture is based on two mutually dependent assumptions. The first is that society molds the individual into a pattern which, while it may not be ego syntonic and very often is not, fosters the continuity of the culture; the second is that the individual re-creates the society in which he lives by re-enforcing those cultural patterns by which he finds himself surrounded and which, to some extent, aid him in solving or sublimating his own infantile conflicts.(...)"


Géza Róheim, Ph.D.