Main description:

* Offers a deeper exploration of social, political and organizational dynamics, through applied psychoanalytic theory.
* Focuses on the complexity of political life in the United States 2015-2020 and embraces sense making of the chaotic world of alternate facts, conspiracy theories, reality TV politics, hoax pandemics to help explain the 'Age of Trump'.
* Offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the US

Contents:

List of Figures

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Permissions

Introduction

Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory in Making Sense of the Age of Trump
PART I: Trump the Man, the President

Overview of Trump's Business and Political History

Narcissism

Autocracy
PART II: Charismatic Leaders and Their Sycophants

Charismatic Leaders

Sycophants and Their Charismatic Leader

The Reality of Chaotic Leadership
PART III: The Power of Ideologies

Introduction to Ideology

Contemporary Right-Wing Ideology and Its Relationship to Shame

Deregulation as a Right-Wing Ideology
PART IV: The Followers of Trump

The Sentience of Followership

A Culture of Grievance: Creating Polarization from Chosen Traumas

White Supremacy and the Pursuit of Power

The Learning Curve