Party of the Superego vs. Party of Narcissus

I've been reading in The Minimal Self by Christopher Lasch, published in 1985

Lasch named the two sides of the 1980s political and cultural wars the Party of the Superego (conservatives, traditionalists, people who loved the canon and the family, Republicans, people for reason) arrayed against the Party of Narcissus (hippies, hedonists, Democrats, anti-authoritarians, people who embrace fusion and irrationality). In The Minimal Self, he tries to reconcile to the two aspects of American culture and politics. It’s a project that seems both relevant and foreign to our problems today, but Lasch is always interesting to read. In concluding a book that takes us on a whirlwind tour of American politics through discussions of art, literature, psychoanalysis and religion, Lasch argues against the Party of the Superego. He writes, “conscience arises not so much from the dread of reprisals by those we have injured or wish to injure as in the capacity for mourning and remorse.” Today, authoritarian control and fear of reprisal comes, not from the Party of the Superego (the Right has given us many different incarnations pleasurable regression in all of its mouthpieces and avatars from Tucker to Trump to MTG) but from the progressives and the Left who have developed an overactive superegoic function that does operate on the level of fear of reprisal, or “cancellation.” People, even liberals are getting tired of the hypervigilance masquerading as the milquetoast ‘tolerance’ allegedly demanded by difference. Agree or disagree with Lasch, he left me thinking more deeply about what was happening in the 1970s and 80s in the aftermath of the countercultural discontent with ‘the status quo.”