Little Sam Studies Freud

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If alive today, how would Sigmund Freud diagnose Donald Trump ?

TEACHER
Today we are having a lesson on Freudian psychology, because it might help you understand your Uncle Donald’s mental behavior – how his brain works – or doesn’t work.

LITTLE SAM
If anybody could understand his brain, they would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but old Trumpy would be so jealous, he would bomb the shit out of Norway.

TEACHER
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, which is a way of understanding the human mind. He lived from 1856 until 1939, so he was a real pioneer of psychology.

Freud’s ideas aren’t accepted as science today, but they’re still a good way of understanding human behavior in special cases like Trump.

LITTLE SAM
He sure is a case, but I don’t know what’s so special about him.

TEACHER
Freud believed that human behavior is made up of three parts that are connected, and mental health depends on how well we balance them – if they are functional enough to be balanced, that is.

They are the Id, the Ego and the Superego.

LITTLE SAM
Now I’m getting it. Everyone talks about his ego and superego.

TEACHER
No, this is very different.

Id means the part of you that wants pleasure and wants it right now.

LITTLE SAM
Like a little kid in a supermarket who throws a tantrum because he can’t have the candy, or like when Trumpy’s Rice Krispies don’t snap, crackle and pop at breakfast.

Or like when he threw a hissy fit and walked out of the NBC Meet the Press interview with Kristen Welker in June, because she nagged him about election-fraud claims. He called her “crooked” and said he had “had enough”.

Guess he has no Id control.

TEACHER
Now you’re getting the hang of it. The next one is Ego which does not mean things like narcissist and self-centred egomaniac, which are popular ways to describe him.

LITTLE SAM
One day, I’m going to learn how to say narrssisssisisst.

TEACHER
Ego means the ability to understand that Id is childish, and things can’t always go your way. It means you need to accept things you have no control over. But Trumpy refuses to accept things like rules, laws and the establishment. These are supposed to be “real-world constraints”.

So, the President of the United States behaved like a spoiled brat when he refused to concede that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. He claimed that the election was “rigged” and “stolen” from him.

LITTLE SAM
He makes ridiculous claims all the time. Last week he abused the cook. He claimed his dinner was cold – but it was a salad.

So, this means he has no Ego control either – is that right ?

TEACHER
Apparently not. And the last one is Superego, and this doesn’t look good for him either.

This is all about being as good a person as you can be in society. It means having morality, ethics and a conscience about how you treat people, animals, property and the environment.

For this to happen, you need to have awareness and self-control.

Freud believed mental health depended on the Ego balancing the demands of the Id and the Superego.

For Trumpy to claim he cared about morality, ethics and conscience would be as funny as a bag of hammers trying to nail him on the FBI’s Epstein files.

LITTLE SAM
You know how he likes to call his enemies “sick” - well I think his own mirror must be faulty.

TEACHER
Everyone remembers Trump writing on Truth Social, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”The whole world was horrified.

He was threatening to completely annihilate the entirety of Iranian civilization if their government ignored his deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Of course, he backed off – but only after a ceasefire deal was struck.

If Sigmund Freud was alive today, I wonder what he would say to Donald Trump.
I would suggest, “You are a dysfunctional, unhinged, nutty fruitcake, who proves my theory – in its most negative form – 100 per cent. Modern practitioners will now realize I was right all along. Thank you.”

But Freud would probably be more professional and less hysterical.
How about, “Mr. Trump, you are a magnificent advertisement for my reputation. Thank you for spending a lifetime demonstrating what happens when the Id, Ego and Superego escape adult supervision.”

LITTLE SAM

I’m worried. If this is a genetic disorder, I sure as hell hope I don’t get it.

Maybe when I was a baby, there was a mistake at the hospital, and I am not related to him after all. I can wish.

SOURCE: Simple Psychology