guilt

In my 52 years, I've heard popular use of psychological terms come and go. It's rare to hear some Freudian terms like "anal-compulsive" or "penis envy" much these days. "Narcissism" was a jargon term in Freudian psychology that now means something like being too self-centered. So too with...

This thread didn't necessarily have to go in this sub-forum, but since this article is partly about the current campaign, I decided to put it here. I ran across this defense of liberal guilt by Ron Rosenbaum in Slate. What do you think? Some highlights:

Knowledge begets responsibility which begets guilt Guilt is both a curse and a salvation. I conclude that guilt is perhaps one of the few internal mechanisms that can prevent human self-destruction. Rational analysis and recognition of self preservation can drive us to correcting problems...

Is anyone more familiar with the inner workings of Jehovas Witness philosophy than me? I got a friend that I suspect was exploited by a group of those :( He was vulnerable emotionally and wasn't able to tell them to go away and I thought that maybe they might have got him even more depressed...