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

by Mark Edmundson

Book Overview

How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age

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?

Mark Edmundson views contemporary culture and discourse through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300265816
• ISBN13: 9780300265811
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"