Return of the superego.

Casual descriptions of Freud's model often characterise the superego as a sort of wise uncle, paternalistically ushering the cadet ego out of trouble. Views Book The Age of Guilt Mark Edmundson Yale University Press IN 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". In The Age of Guilt: The super-ego in the online world, Edmundson, a literary scholar, simply wants to suggest that Freud might help us better understand our cultural moment. [Extracted from the article]