The paper is an application of psychoanalytic theory
to examine the psychology and traumas of globally important leaders —Trump,
Putin, Xi — the Troika. It also discusses psychoanalytic theory’s value
in public discourse about the public interest.
Freud’s
Project for Scientific Psychology and his Structural Theory of
the psyche are used as the frameworks for analyzing Troika’s pathologies. Observed circumstances,
speeches, public information, and the invisible forces in the psyche as data,
the paper reasons that the life and death instincts and the neuronal ‘machine that runs by
Itself’, organized by the early experiences of these
global leaders, drive the Troika’s destructive actions. These profoundly impact the citizens of the
world.
The
paper recognizes and expands on Freud’s important generalization (in Neurosis
and Psychosis):
“Transference
neuroses [phobias, hysterias] correspond to a conflict between the ego and the
id; narcissistic [psycho]neuroses [schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder] to a
conflict between the ego and the super-ego; and psychoses to one between the
ego and the external world.”
This
invites a diagnosis of ‘(persistent) asymptomatic psychosis’, as the
author proposed in an earlier paper because, for Troika, pathological
super-ego and id conflicts have not been confined between the ego and the
external world (in a hypothetical consulting room) but spilled over to the
external world, as Freud writes in his paper “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis
and Psychosis:”
“We call behavior ‘normal’ or ‘healthy’, if it combines certain features of both reactions [neurotic and psychotic] — if it disavows the reality as little as does a neurosis, but if it then exerts itself, as does a psychosis, to effect an alteration of that reality; … it does not stop … at effecting internal changes. It is no longer autoplastic but alloplastic.”
























