EIRP Proceedings (May 2018)
The Ego Communication Beyond Interpersonal
Abstract
During our lives, within multiple and varied interactions with others, we come to interpret a series of roles, to have some statuses and related behaviours and/or derived from these social conditions. And all these have the role to deepen the relationship with the fellow man; and more, to allow “reflection and selfreflection in the other” (Cooley). Communicating with others, regardless of the relationship and reference we have with them, as well as the type of communication network applied, is an active, dynamic and irreversible process that calls for a series of “behavioural strategies” to achieve the goals pursued. For each case, we can say that we have a series of patterns, we have a “social mask” that allows us to adapt more or less to a given situation, hence the reaction of the other to our position. Depending on these established relationships, the coherency between two actors may go one way or the other. It is necessary to emphasize that each of us juggles with these attitudes depending on the psycho-social context, but one is dominant. The position of life is a way of evaluating and interpreting the moments of existence and, by all means an infallible form of being.
