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The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World

By (author) Mark Edmundson

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How Freudâ€™s concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age Â Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum for cruelty and judgment? Can a whole culture become mentally ill? How do we understand and respond to this problem? Â Mark Edmundson views contemporary culture and discourse through Freudâ€™s concept of the super-ego, the moralistic and frequently irrational inner judge. The poet William Blake was attuned to this â€œdark pressure of self-condemnation,â€ and Nietzsche knew its power as well. One way to mitigate (temporarily) the self-judgment of the super-ego is to aim it outward instead, judging and even punishing others for supposed infractions. Naturally these targets fight back, resulting in a cascade of bitterness and even hatred. Edmundson traces the destructive passion of the super-ego on politics, race, gender, class, education, and more, drawing on psychological studies, classroom experience, and the work of Adam Phillips and Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek. Edmundson proposes ways to manage the super-ego and even to transform it into an affirmative power. Â In The Age of Guilt, Edmundson renews the promise of Freudian theory as he explores our unique social moment with psychological insight, humanity, and erudition.

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