Oedipus Wrecks
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"As I once said to Oedipus, 'You've got real problems, motherfucker!'"Bush Administration policies are not only a 'great catastrophe' but the products of a disturbed mind, according to this provocative blend of psychological case-study and partisan polemic. Psychoanalyst Frank sifts through family memoirs, the writings of critics like Al Franken and David Corn and the public record of Bush’s personal idiosyncrasies for clues to the President’s character, interpreting the evidence in the rigidly Freudian framework of child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. He finds that Bush, psychically scarred by an absentee father and a cold, authoritarian mother, has developed a galloping case of megalomania, characterized by a Manichaean worldview, delusions of persecution and omnipotence and an 'anal/sadistic' indifference to others’ pain, with removal from office the only 'treatment option.'Technorati Tags: Bush, Freud, psychoanalysis, Oedipus, megalomania, just plain nuts
