How to survive the age of anger

In polite society, most anger is impotent, working its way on the nerves.

It starts at birth, with the first howl of rage, and continues through infancy.

Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen distinguishes between four types of anger: righteous, failed, cynical and “usable” Anger is as complex as love, because we “fall’t into it’s a kind of trauma in the strict sense of an experience whose sheer force is too much for us to master.

All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World by Josh Cohen is published by Granta .

The author is brilliant on passive aggression, the scourge of the office and the destroyer of the home.

The path to usable’ rage is through introspection a somatic relationship with one’s anger.