In this format, it is easy to see that the “internal parts” are different versions of the “generalized me” that become introjected into the private domain of the inner self. In the same way that the person has to negotiate the social world by adopting certain external norms and conventions, when the psyche splits into parts it creates impicit norms and conventions that are borrowed from external social conditions. Hence the parts present themselves as familiar family roles (internal family systems) or common social roles (internal constellations). Because the parts are merely generalized abstractions (lacking the context of real relational dynamics), they are inherently sterotypical, with each part performing a strong bias. There are the villians and the heros, the masters and the slaves, the hurt ones and the caregivers, the rable and the managers, the timid ones and the bold ones, the saints and the assholes. – https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/p/before-socrates-diaresis-dialectic#footnote-7-102093158