Trump
Derangement Syndrome
It baffled me how Donald J. Trump,
the
self-made billionaire who ran against
all
odds for the highest office in the land
and
won the presidency of the United States
of
America, could have such mysterious
power
over people, a power so compelling
that
the brilliant psychiatrist and conservative
columnist
Charles Krauthammer described
it
as a “derangement syndrome,” an acute
onset
of paranoia in otherwise normal people
in
regard to the policies, the presidency—
nay,
the very existence of the man himself;
but
then one day it dawned on me as I was
re-reading
the true founding father of depth
psychology,
C. G. Jung (Freud was the other),
on
his concepts of the unconscious shadow
self
and projection, and suddenly it came
to
me that the former president’s over-inflated
ego/shadow
personality reflected the faults
and
foibles of the American people that they
angrily
refused to see in their own ego/shadow
personality,
and they hate him for it. That’s
the
mysterious power of DJT.
Composed
in Tiny Beaches,
Georgian
Bay, Southcentral, Ontario,
Thursday,
August 29, 2024
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