ABSTRACT
Neither violent subjugation nor personal horrification customarily happens in a tranquil social atmosphere, but instead happens in a tempestuous one. Speaking less metaphorically, these experiences usually take place in a social atmosphere in which the interaction between the members of a primary group is pervaded by strife and friction and by the mutual distrust and ill-will that so often accompanies such interaction. Just as the subject can undergo either coercive or retaliatory subjugation, so can he witness either form of subjugation being practiced upon a fellow primary group member during the experience of personal horrification. As with violent subjugation, personal horrification is more fully and clearly experienced where physical force is actually used upon the victim than where it is merely threatened. However, in contrast to the experience of violent subjugation which took different courses, the course which the experience of personal horrification follows is virtually the same whether the subjugation witnessed is coercive or retaliatory.
