The Manifesto of the “ES”: The Tripartite Triangle Model

Abstract

This essay introduces a new paradigm in the psychoanalytic doctrinal scenario: the psychology of the ES. The paper begins with a comprehensive examination of the literature concerning the metapsychology of the ES, with particular reference to the works of Georg Groddeck and Sigmund Freud. Subsequently, they briefly recall the classical psychoanalytic conception of the psyche's topology and the phases of psychosexual development. Following this introductory part, we present our vision of the topological structure, which partially differs from those existing in the literature. This is achieved by contrasting the classic iceberg model with their own Tripartite Triangle model, derived from daily and historical observations of human behavior and beyond. The essay then introduces a series of new concepts, such as the scale of desires, modern answers to ancient questions about the sense of life, and correlations with neurochemical and functional neuroanatomy, like the reward system, thereby laying the foundations of their paradigm. The essay is an unprecedented contribution to the field.