-Joachim Vogt Isaksen on "The Looking Glass Self"
This idea, first published in 1902 by sociologist Charles Horton Cooley, asserts that how others perceive and treat us will, without conscious contrary action, overpower a personality, opinion, or even identity of an individual- be that for better or worse (see The Stanford Prison Experiment). Cooley had finally solidified why man has always, to some degree, feared his peers, and this base fear actually manifests as the root of two semi-effective rhetorical devices:
