How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age
Mark Edmundson Book order (chronological)
Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as “feudal”—obsessed with the noble and great—Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War.