The Age of Guilt review: Can Freud shed light on the internet?

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Freud thought we had a superego, an unconscious power that criticised and punished us. Mark Edmundson's intriguing new book The Age of Guilt explores whether this idea could help explain the excesses of the internet.

Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library/alamyIN HIS Freudian analysis of what we might loosely term “cancel culture”, Mark Edmundson wisely chooses not to get into simplistic debates about which of the

psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s ideas have or haven’t been “proved right”. What would that even mean? Psychology isn’t so much science as it is engineering – applying ideas and evidence to a purpose. In

 

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