CPPsychoanalysis

ComPutational
Psychoanalysis

If you had only an ego and the id, then the id's impulses would always be satisfied. If you had only an ego and superego, then the superego's urgings would always be met. But in fact, most of us have all three. Thus, the ego serves to balance the demands of the id against those of the superego by realistically assessing the limits imposed by the real world.



This is the key concept of the Computational Psychoanalysis.

It uses the personality model given by Freud's personality theory associated with an alternative equilibrium concept coming from games theory called temporized equilibrium. We may think to id, ego and superego as a part of a game (in games theory acception) and imagine psychoanalytic behaviour as the result of a computation made by the players for finding the best solution to the game.

The most important thing is that in temporized equilibria paradigm we have a number of player that play a non-cooperative game and a new entity called deterrent that induces the player to choose a solution that is the best for every player.

Using such a model in psychoanalysis is very natural, in fact we can modelize the personality as a 2-players game, in which the id and the superego are the two player and the ego is the deterrent. This aspect can be seen as a paraphrasation of the concept given at the beginning and that is reported on every page of this website.

As a natural consequence of this type of model can be an extension of such a view for a single person to a sort of social computational theory intended as an n-players game in wich all the society element are the players and the authority or the government or politics or god can represent the deterrent that helps the players to make the more convenient choice.

In a specific section we furnish an operative example of the personality model we have theoretically exposed. This example is made by a java class for every actor that has a part in the game.