Is there a social equivalent to the id/ego/superego? (feddit.nl)

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We are familiar with the social "id" through mob dynamics, crowd control. But is there anything akin to the ego and superego for society or groups? Maybe the media act as a bit of a superego on societies...but maybe the concept just does not extend that easily.

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[-] Ransom@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t think there are equivalents. We know that certain parts of the brain house, or are associated with, ways of thinking. The closest I can think of would be the PFC as equivalent to ego. But no, neither Freudian nor Jungian psychology are useful beyond certain English departments using Freud and/or Jung as a form of critical literary analysis (literary theory). It’s like how the Bohr model of the atom is still taught in schools even though it’s incredibly primitive, and physics has long moved past it.

[-] Gsus4@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eh, the Bohr model actually gets some things roughly right (line spectra in Hydrogen-like atoms), but that is only because it was good enough to happen to fit those specific data :) but ok, maybe instead of Freudian terms, I should use a more modern system like Schwartz's Internal Family Systems and try to extrapolate that: e.g. subpersonalities would become subcultures

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