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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 |
Justin Frank, M.D., on George W. Bush: "... an inability to perceive the complex nuances of reality. One result is the black-and-white posturing that is so prevalent in his rhetoric.
Bush's decisions and actions are clearly informed by a need to order his world into good and bad. He shows a rigid inability to consider the idea that anything in his own behavior might qualify as destructive; instead he projects such impulses onto his many perceived persecutors, to maintain his sense of self. He denies his fallibility, vulnerability, and responsibility because on a fundamental unconscious level he feels he must do so to survive.
Ultimately, the only way for an individual burdened by such a perspective to be safe - to protect against the delusion of external persecution - is to annihilate the persecutors. But this process, set in motion to quash anxiety and guilt, also compromises his perceptive abilities and nullifies his intellectual understanding of the problem at hand.
There is every reason, then, to consider George W. Bush's drive to rid the world of dangerous people as not simply the policy judgment of a president - but as the drive of an undernurtured and emotionally hobbled infant, terrified of confronting the dangers within his own psyche."
3:52:15 PM 
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© Copyright 2008 Hetty Litjens.
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