He warned that the apparent beneficence of corporate life masked a basic conflict between the individual and society: "The group is a tyrant; so also is it a friend, and it is both at once".
There is a basic conflict between the goal of maximizing profit at every level and the goal of actually providing health care to those who need it.
Freud argues that there is a basic conflict between humanity's aggressive nature as the planet's top predator, and the opportunity to create calm and safe civilization that this pre-eminent position brings.
Finally, there was a basic conflict between poor and marginalized social groups, many of whom wanted protection against mechanized production and rural impoverishment, and the business interests who sought to use their new political influence to promote economic growth and freedom of enterprise.
Both Millennium and Moby-Dick have been described as "a basic conflict between good and evil".
Mr. Ernest Hemingway, an old beau of hers, thought he recognized her in Spain, disguised as the basic conflict between Fascisim and Communism.
Because of this basic conflict between antitrust and labor law, the Supreme Court has created the limited, but important, labor exemption to the antitrust laws.
The basic conflict between the Shīʿite empire Ismāʿīl had founded and the Sunnī Ottomans in the west and the Sunni Uzbek tribes in the east continued for more than a century.
In England, the movement ran out of steam by World War I. Its proponents "were never able to resolve the basic conflict between the goal of democratic art and one that upheld the highest standards of craftsmanship," Ms. Kaplan said.
Along with that basic conflict between helping the jobless and creating professional productions came uneasy relations with the established theatrical unions, on the defensive against any threat to their members' jobs, as well with a new union, the Workers Alliance, which recruited the down-and-outers and had a reputation for militancy, even of a Communist stripe.
The basic conflict between drives and control processes, which Freud believed to be the basis of several neuroses, was also invoked to explain both dream content and the "psychopathology of everyday life"—the ordinary slips of the tongue (sometimes called Freudian slips) and errors such as forgetting intentions or misplacing objects.
