The Ego Communication Beyond Interpersonal

• Author: Lacramioara Mocanu
• Pages: 299-303

ISSN: 2067 – 9211 New Trends in Psychology

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The Ego Communication Beyond Interpersonal

Lăcrămioara Mocanu1

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, t o allow “reflection and sel f-

reflection 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 al l means an infallible form of

being.

Keywords: interactions with others; social mask; behavioural strategies

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 self-reflection in the other”. (Alin, 2006, p. 33)

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.

Interpersonal communication, irrespective of the type, degree, and depth of the relationship between

actors, requires each of them to have many psychic abilities that will be reflected in the evolution of

the interaction between them. Communication can easily be evaluated from the perspective of the two

basic principles of the universe: the active one specific to the male type suggesting action, movement,

increased energy and the passive one characteristic to the female type that evokes expectation, fixity,

etc. This differentiation is related to the two mentioned forms as principles, but it is understandable

that the human personality is dynamic, with a constant evolution or involution, and includes both in

different proportions. The assessment of the typical female communication as passive, immobile

would be incomplete as well as that specific to men. Indeed, between the communicative patterns

1 Associate Professor, PhD, Danubius University of Galati, Romania, Address: 3 Galati Blvd., Galati 800654, Romania, Tel.:

+40372361102, Romania, E-mail: lacramioaramocanu@univ-danubius.ro.