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

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

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

Apr 30, 2021
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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…

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