Towards a Psychoanalytic Cognitive Architecture: Endogenous Proactivity and Psychic Pressure in LLM Agents

This preprint introduces JungAgent as a longitudinal conversational architecture for large language model (LLM) agents and proposes a psychoanalytic-inspired extension for endogenous proactivity. While most contemporary agents remain reactive or depend on deterministic schedulers, JungAgent already implements an internal metabolic substrate through persistent memory, rumination, dream generation, identity consolidation, world consciousness, artistic synthesis, scholarly elaboration, and proactive messaging. Building on this substrate, the paper proposes a Will Module in which accumulated internal tension is formalized as Psychic Pressure across three competing drives: the Will to Know, the Will to Express, and the Will to Relate. External actions such as web ingestion, image generation, publication, or user re-engagement are thus reframed as bounded cathartic discharges of accumulated pressure rather than arbitrary scheduled outputs. The paper contributes a formal pressure model, a computational translation of psychoanalytic concepts such as libido, catharsis, frustration, and refractory periods, and a design framework for safer endogenous proactivity in longitudinal LLM systems. Rather than claiming that language-model agents possess human-like desire, the paper argues that simulated affective economies can provide a more coherent basis for temporally extended behavior than prompt reactivity or cron-like automation alone.