The architecture of various social networks enable particular agencies of the psyche to express themselves: Let’s start with ego which has its online representation in Facebook. It sits above our ego and performs self observation, usually in a judgmental expectant style, it is “constituted through the internalisation of parental prohibitions and demands” (Laplanche and Pontalis, 1973). The Superego (literally the “over I” or overseer of the I): This is our social consciousness, or morality. That which we understand as our subjectivity, our “I-ness”: The Ego (literally “the I”): That part of the psyche that navigates between our internal world and our external world, mediating between id and superego. the prime reservoir of psychical energy the ego and superego” (Laplanche and Pontalis, 1973). The Id (literally “the it”) : The seat of our passions and aggressions, largely unconscious and generally socially unacceptable in their raw form:Īs defined in The Language of Psychoanalysis: “the instinctual pole of the personality its contents, as an expression of the instincts, are unconscious, a portion of them being hereditary and innate, a portion repressed and acquired. These conflicting agencies of self are reflected in the online social networking sites that we use. No, you cannot find these three “psychic agencies” inside the brain as discrete areas (though some neuroscience does point to various processes described by them), but we can all relate in general to the idea that we have at least three conflicting aspects to ourselves. Today, it may seem a little bit reductive, but Freud’s “tripartite psyche” still gives us a model of the psyche that most people can relate to.
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