ABSTRACT
The mind is peopled by part objects and by images and subcultures of the past, and it is only by introducing the microcultural dimension that structural transformations can take place between systems and cohesion become coherence. Under the reciprocal influence of evolving microcultures, dialogue can become humanized by real here-and-now people and their dialogue. Subcultures can be said to be based on shared individual infantile and developmental stages and 'frames of reference'. These stages and frames of reference first become established as subcultures directly influencing the social macroculture and can be scrutinized from the viewpoint of median group microcultural developments occurring through dialogue. Sigmund Freud abandoned the distinction between these two sets of instincts by postulating the concept of narcissism in which libido cathects the ego itself. Marx and Engels saw sociology as economically determined, 'economism', constituting the infrastructure to the cultural superstructure.
