Lee says Trump "has no stable center and sense of self.z'..and mentions "narcissism" and "lack of empathy." This greatly oversimplifies his pathology. (Narcissism implies an investment in the Image at the expense of the feeling). Does anyone believe that DJT is unempathic rather that downright sadistic or sadomasochistic. To the question "What has Trump done to America?" Arendt would say that the followers lack the ability to think - this is the banality of evil and quite common and lacks pathology by definition. Trump's, on the other hand, is unusually ill and projects (ala Klein) into those around him. (This is NOT a shared paranoid disorder, as Lee suggested). Trump's primitive/ Kaleidoscopic and unpredictable pathology keeps people on their feet, off balance and quasi-hypnotized..
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It's too bad that one crappy study by the now defunct FACT magazine transmuted into the Goldwater a stricture that prevents searing insights. It keeps great shrinks from opining on this situation as legal experts do freely. Finally, I disagree that time away from the news is key. Let's look at the dark and the light together and come together in the light. Tikkun olam, leigh
Excellent conversation. I appreciated your appeal to the orange fella at the end. He'll never listen to that kind of good sense, but I've often wondered why not.
Lee says Trump "has no stable center and sense of self.z'..and mentions "narcissism" and "lack of empathy." This greatly oversimplifies his pathology. (Narcissism implies an investment in the Image at the expense of the feeling). Does anyone believe that DJT is unempathic rather that downright sadistic or sadomasochistic. To the question "What has Trump done to America?" Arendt would say that the followers lack the ability to think - this is the banality of evil and quite common and lacks pathology by definition. Trump's, on the other hand, is unusually ill and projects (ala Klein) into those around him. (This is NOT a shared paranoid disorder, as Lee suggested). Trump's primitive/ Kaleidoscopic and unpredictable pathology keeps people on their feet, off balance and quasi-hypnotized..
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It's too bad that one crappy study by the now defunct FACT magazine transmuted into the Goldwater a stricture that prevents searing insights. It keeps great shrinks from opining on this situation as legal experts do freely. Finally, I disagree that time away from the news is key. Let's look at the dark and the light together and come together in the light. Tikkun olam, leigh
Trump's insanity has indeed infected our country. He also gave syphilis to half of the Washington Wizards, during one of his rare 'in town' weekends.
Excellent conversation. I appreciated your appeal to the orange fella at the end. He'll never listen to that kind of good sense, but I've often wondered why not.
Down with anything that has Cypress Hill references 😁. Very well done pod - Dr. Lee is the best!
This was a fascimating interview.
We're currently seeing the concept of contagion play out on the geopolitical stage.
The belief that Israel deliberately targeted a Gazan hospital took root and spread like wildfire...leading to protests throughout the Arab world.
When reporters (finally) pointed out the presence of apparently contradictory evidence, the protestors stated that the facts were irrelevant.
The speed of the global contagion is frightening.
So grateful to Dr. Lee for being the tip of the spear as the psychiatry establishment failed us. https://samray.substack.com/p/psychiatry-and-psychology-are-failing
This was a good one Rick!