'Q: Into The Storm' Exposes The Internet's Unconscious

Eric Shorey thinks about Cullen Hoback's mind-boggling docu-series from a psychoanalytic perspective

A basic idea behind classic psychoanalytic thinking is that repressed desires, wishes, and fantasies often emerge in disguised forms as symptoms. That is to say, repression often fails as a tactic for dealing with content deemed unacceptable to the structure of the conscious/unconscious system —the symptom, then, is created as a compromise formation th…