PEP | Article - Psychiatry. XXI, 1958: Social Structure and the Development of Personality—Freud's Contribution to the Integration of Psychology and Sociology. Talcott Parsons. Pp. 321-340.

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Abstract

As a result of overemphasis on biological considerations, Freud's major contributions to the integration of psychology and sociology have been relatively

ignored. Actually Freud's concepts of internalization converged remarkably with the independent and nearly contemporaneous views of the sociologists Durkheim, Cooley, and Mead. The theory of object relations is the link between development of personality structure and the structure and functioning of social systems. Parsons develops this theme incisively, stressing the interpenetration rather than interdependence of personality and society. He finds little difficulty in articulating psychoanalytic concepts with his important sociological contributions.