That t-shirt slogan says it all. "Daddy's Home." It sounds more like a threat? Was it intentional, I don't know. My mother was the "punisher" in our home and even though our father never laid a hand on us 7 siblings the threat was always issued "wait until your father gets home." Correction, one of my brothers who was 16 at the time gave my mother a demeaning verbal thrashing one day and my father walked in on it. He walked over to my brother and without saying a word, punched him with one hit which knocked him to the ground. He told him, "If I ever hear you talking to your mother that way again, or if you ever talk to any woman like that, I'm throwing you out." Now we understood why he left the punishment up to mum lol.
How come more people aren’t telling us these kinds of things regarding trump. It’s been 10 years & instead we just stay shocked & continuously chronicle the trauma he’s causing. For 10 years. He’s not just some bad guy that wound up prezzy of the free world lol. My lord. Thanks again 🙏
Very interesting perspective. It added another layer to my own understanding from an Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology Perspective of Narcissism as emotional developmental arrest at about 2 yrs. old. I see Trump as a perpetual, petulant young child who has not developed a clear differentiation between self and others. I see his followers as, personality disordered people, without a strong sense of self, who identify with Trump and are caught up in group paranoia. This is exhibited in Trump's no, no, no, me, me, me, temper tantrums, poop obsessed behavior and failure to see others as separate beings. He regards people only in relationship to himself. Everyone either belongs to him or else they are threatening enemies that must be destroyed.
Edifying! Should be enough to declare him clinically totally unsuitable to be president and stuff him with a bunch of daily nice colored pills. Blue ones (he will shout radical left color!), pink ones (like the young underaged girls he was boasting to grab by the pussies (triple dose!) blue petrol ones (swallow baby swallow), etc. get rid of this fascist loser bitte schoen
Fascinating! Please consider including the brilliant work of Lloyd DeMause. His works are put forth in the journal of Psychohistory and his book called The Emotional Life of Nations which is a thorough analysis of how childhood abuse is the common denominator in all pathologies of society’s throughout the world. Thank you!
And it’s not just childhood trauma either although most of the psychos who rise to power have been abused as children, pathologies also result from trauma or abuse/s experienced as adults. I’m thinking of women (and some men) being raped and/or victims of domestic abuse or men (and some women) sent to wars. Been thinking about this lately and the large numbers of mentally ill in the USA. USA has attracted the traumatized from all over the world for centuries as immigrants. Trauma usually begets trauma unless it is healed.
Looking forward to reading his books. Thanks for mentioning his name and perspective.
This is a psychoanalysis presented as a national security briefing, and it's painfully on point. Trump’s pathology is policy. We’ve spent a decade treating his malignant narcissism like a personality quirk instead of what it is: a contagion of obedience and projection that rewires entire populations.
Stewartson’s mapping of Lakoff’s “Strict Father” metaphor to Freud’s father complex is genius and horrifying in equal measure. Trump doesn’t just invoke authoritarian patriarchy; he is its living recursion; the boy who never escaped his father’s contempt now forcing a nation to call him “Daddy.” Every cheer at a rally, every promise of punishment, is Freud’s repetition compulsion scaled up to the size of an empire.
The “ontological isomorphism” here isn’t theoretical; it’s operational. When a populace internalizes a father’s abuse as love, democracy doesn’t die in darkness; it dies calling him “sir.”
That t-shirt slogan says it all. "Daddy's Home." It sounds more like a threat? Was it intentional, I don't know. My mother was the "punisher" in our home and even though our father never laid a hand on us 7 siblings the threat was always issued "wait until your father gets home." Correction, one of my brothers who was 16 at the time gave my mother a demeaning verbal thrashing one day and my father walked in on it. He walked over to my brother and without saying a word, punched him with one hit which knocked him to the ground. He told him, "If I ever hear you talking to your mother that way again, or if you ever talk to any woman like that, I'm throwing you out." Now we understood why he left the punishment up to mum lol.
How come more people aren’t telling us these kinds of things regarding trump. It’s been 10 years & instead we just stay shocked & continuously chronicle the trauma he’s causing. For 10 years. He’s not just some bad guy that wound up prezzy of the free world lol. My lord. Thanks again 🙏
Very interesting perspective. It added another layer to my own understanding from an Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology Perspective of Narcissism as emotional developmental arrest at about 2 yrs. old. I see Trump as a perpetual, petulant young child who has not developed a clear differentiation between self and others. I see his followers as, personality disordered people, without a strong sense of self, who identify with Trump and are caught up in group paranoia. This is exhibited in Trump's no, no, no, me, me, me, temper tantrums, poop obsessed behavior and failure to see others as separate beings. He regards people only in relationship to himself. Everyone either belongs to him or else they are threatening enemies that must be destroyed.
Edifying! Should be enough to declare him clinically totally unsuitable to be president and stuff him with a bunch of daily nice colored pills. Blue ones (he will shout radical left color!), pink ones (like the young underaged girls he was boasting to grab by the pussies (triple dose!) blue petrol ones (swallow baby swallow), etc. get rid of this fascist loser bitte schoen
Brilliant, analysis Jim The Replican and Democratic party codependent political leaderhip
Fascinating! Please consider including the brilliant work of Lloyd DeMause. His works are put forth in the journal of Psychohistory and his book called The Emotional Life of Nations which is a thorough analysis of how childhood abuse is the common denominator in all pathologies of society’s throughout the world. Thank you!
And it’s not just childhood trauma either although most of the psychos who rise to power have been abused as children, pathologies also result from trauma or abuse/s experienced as adults. I’m thinking of women (and some men) being raped and/or victims of domestic abuse or men (and some women) sent to wars. Been thinking about this lately and the large numbers of mentally ill in the USA. USA has attracted the traumatized from all over the world for centuries as immigrants. Trauma usually begets trauma unless it is healed.
Looking forward to reading his books. Thanks for mentioning his name and perspective.
Complex stuff!
I can’t wait to try & understand all this bc it’s so important. Thank you thank you thank you for staying on it!
This is a psychoanalysis presented as a national security briefing, and it's painfully on point. Trump’s pathology is policy. We’ve spent a decade treating his malignant narcissism like a personality quirk instead of what it is: a contagion of obedience and projection that rewires entire populations.
Stewartson’s mapping of Lakoff’s “Strict Father” metaphor to Freud’s father complex is genius and horrifying in equal measure. Trump doesn’t just invoke authoritarian patriarchy; he is its living recursion; the boy who never escaped his father’s contempt now forcing a nation to call him “Daddy.” Every cheer at a rally, every promise of punishment, is Freud’s repetition compulsion scaled up to the size of an empire.
The “ontological isomorphism” here isn’t theoretical; it’s operational. When a populace internalizes a father’s abuse as love, democracy doesn’t die in darkness; it dies calling him “sir.”