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It does this notably by creating an environment where we create an image of ourselves as we wish others to see us and as we ideally wish to see ourselves. It utilises the agency of the ego to create and sustain relationships with others online. Today, we have expanded our notion of instinctual desire beyond just sex towards a more global desire to relate to others. Facebook does this like no other social network. For Freud, the id-energy was primarily libido (sexual energy) – the ego, rather than acting on the id’s need for sex, would convert that raw desire into something more socially acceptable, like making oneself attractive to others while wooing or seducing the other into sex, rather than taking them against their will. It’s main job is to convert id desires into socially acceptable outcomes because it mediates between the internal world and the external world. The ego, as a rule, seeks to be liked and admired. Simply the notion of “liking” on Facebook is akin to an ego need. I have gone to great lengths in my book to show how psychodynamics operate through online social networks, and have taken special pains to show how particular social networks like Facebook operate particularly on the outward facing aspects of the ego (you can see my video presentation on this subject and previous blog posts for more detailed information). 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.
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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.