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emmah godd's avatar

Signy Leid!!!!

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John Pistelli's avatar

Great review! I read an Edmundson book about a hundred years ago—it was called Why Read?—and observed most of the same issues you point out. I think academics writing for a popular audience try to dumb it down way too much, or are ordered to do so. I agree with you that, if we're going to use psychoanalysis for this task, Jung's psychic model explains the internet better than Freud's, from shadow projection for the cancellation and purity spirals on both left and right to anima/animus-possession for some of the Tumblr-gender phenomena. (I love Signy Leid, by the way.)

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