More about the abusive dynamics of American politics

[undergroundpanther]

To understand what is going on in a deeper sense,please click around..


A psychohistoric look at the group fantasies of the Reagan era..
http://www.psychohistory.com/reagan/rcontent.htm



Both power and nurturance roles therefore vary in history according to the evolutionary stage which the group-fantasy has reached - - which is to say, according to the specific form of erotic life at each historical stage.

A more precise description of these changes of form of historical group-fantasies will become evident later in this paper. First, I want to make one more remark about the emotional task of the fantasy-leader. Even though the leader must be masochistic enough to take on the continuous oedipal hatred of the individuals within the group, he must also be sadistic enough both to be able to identify with the group's hatred of himself and also to be able to convince the group it should displace some of its rage onto others. This displacement, of course, often includes the assumption by the leader of responsibility for the most destructive actions human beings can undertake, so that the sadism normally found in each of us is not really sufficient to make an effective historical fantasy-leader. In addition, the leader must find enough gratification in "crazy" thought and action to allow himself to be a receptacle for the continuous psychotic projections of the group, including various levels of unreality, splitting, paranoid suspicion, grandiosity, violent rage and other forms of psychotic anxiety. The only thing a fantasy-leader need not be is mature. Leaders every day are "successful" though extremely disturbed emotionally-witness the Napoleons and Stalins of every age in every country.

http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/contents.htm

And to that I would add many homes,schools and workplaces.
http://www.bullyonline.org/

And next door
http://www.curledup.com/sociopat.htm

http://www.psychohistory.com/

[Demeter]

1. Thanks for Link

Has this any connection to Asimov's Foundation series?

[undergroundpanther]

3. No,not that I know of

[Karenina]

2. Kick!

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