Trump - a returning trauma

Povratak Donald Trump for the president of the United States we can see it as, in Hegelian terms, unfinished - 'the negation of the negation' - because the negated negation returned as an eruption of a repressed symptom, what was sought to be rejected, banished, hence it has now surfaced in a much worse and darker form, let us remember Freud who explained that nothing can be blocked forever, everything, sooner or later, finds its way through. The first time as a farce, the second time as a tragedy, the previous and current actions of the current US president should be understood in this light.

As we know, the standard psychoanalytic lesson explains that for a pervert there is nothing forbidden, he does what hysterics only fantasize about doing (Platonova (the division of people comes down to those who act and those who only dream about how they act), so he allows himself to exercise all his repressed dirty fantasies, which can explain the vulgarity and sexist statements that Trump is more than prone to, as well as the rhetorical disparagement not only of the leaders of the European Union, but also of former presidents of the country he governs.

Ok: does this mean then that the hysterical electorate that suppresses its dirty urges (Republican racism, homophobia, sexism, ultra-patriarchy, are a false projection like in the case of the character in the movie American beauty, Colonel Frank, a closeted homosexual who is obsessed with military discipline and weapons, to the point where he keeps in his macho collection a plate from which an SS officer dined, with a swastika drawn on the other side?), liberates them precisely through this political figure? So will Biden accuse him of working not only against him, but against every person who has a dream in America, with the help of the FBI and the Department of Justice, after they raided his Florida home for secret files, saying: "It's not just my home that has been attacked, but also the hopes and dreams of every person I've been fighting for since the moment I walked down the golden escalator in 2015, wanting to represent the people." (First: a method to make himself a victim in order to make his supporters identify with him, second: walking down the golden stairs is a sign that he will represent - which people, which American social class?)

However, let's step back a bit to see the next problem. The liberally promiscuous order of late postmodern capitalism indicates that society, due to complete sexual freedom, is increasingly asexual, anxious, frigid, and that this excess that demands complete pleasure (enjoyment) - is a real obstacle to reaching it; desirelessness as a depression into which Western society is continuously falling, is a consequence of what has been repressed and consumed, which is already noticeable in excessive violence, self-inflicted suffering, a suicidal life led through the transgression of pleasure governed by the drive towards death.

Using internal repression in the work of the ICE organization, which outwardly takes on the appearance of some dystopian parapolice (we can compare it to the 'firefighters' from the novel Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, which the author himself says is not about censorship, it is about the reign of television that has displaced interest in reading and critical thinking, replacing it with factoids and half-information), elevating the MAGA ideology of isolationism as a project that will once again raise the country to the imaginary throne of the world, planning a magnificent wall that will finally separate it from Mexico once and for all (in the film No Land for the Old Man, we notice an extraordinary paradox, namely: a Vietnam veteran with money he collected from Mexican dealers killed among them, in order to preserve it as well as his life, illegally crosses the border at night, entering Mexico thanks to a guard who is also a military veteran, all in order to find refuge, which Trump would certainly not like as a detail), indicates that the one who rules the world's leading power suppresses the complex that he is not worthy of it or is not up to it at all. This led us in one text to the conclusion that Trump is a symptom of contemporary politics, what is the obstacle in it that it creates by repeatedly returning to a traumatic break, whether it is the unnecessary war in Vietnam that is now being renewed in Iran, or something completely different.

A rude contractor is tolerated for all sorts of outbursts, including primarily mockery and complete underestimation of political opponents, but also a first-rate scandal like the affair with a porn star re-actualized in the pre-election race, all for the reason that the elitist profession that politics was, would be reduced to the ultimate trivialization and promotion of all sorts of excesses; so, after WikiLeaks, we had Epstein files, affairs that went completely, psychoanalytically speaking, 'smoothly', power is its own limit and within it various orgiastic forms of its action take place, now without any censorship because we are also dealing with pedophile politicians. (A very fragile ceasefire agreement has just been reached in the Gaza Strip, where genocide was committed, but the so-called 'Yellow Line' remains in force, which if playful Palestinian children in the increasingly oppressed Gaza cross, the order in force is for soldiers to shoot immediately, which they do with pleasure, while in parallel with this horror and hell that two Israeli reservists are talking about but under the protection of anonymity, Netanyahu goes public with the happy news that his prostate surgery was successful and that he can return to his current duties.)

The disappearance of authority, public dignity, the ethical example that some of the contemporary leaders would show through their actions, produces social disorientation, a general confusion imposed by capitalism, because - deterritorialized, capitalism with the help of artificial intelligence is rapidly working on this so that we will be able to experience what Lace called a concept - noumenon or thing in itself - and fascinated by something like that, we do not notice, it simply passes by and escapes us the state of the real world, the climate crisis that has already claimed 17 lives in Great Britain due to record temperatures reaching 35 degrees. So: diving into the virtual vortex, what, however, if we suppress the need for a real experience of excess enjoyment that occurs with excess or 'pleasure in pain', in performances in which the artist smears herself with feces or cuts herself with a knife, indicating that she is trying to feel herself, just as the reality of politics enters into Trump's statement that they are calling him, begging and pleading, declaring that they want to kiss his ass, just to avoid raising tariffs on imported goods (this is how he offered talks with the leaders of the most prominent EU countries).

Mostly, the unreality into which we are (thrown), on the other hand from the repressed or the negation of negation not fully realized, returns to us those drives that we do not want to become conscious of, leaving them until they gather the necessary strength and break out as pure horror, a suicidal gesture that a young rich man, fed up with madness, committed in order to overshadow Hannibal, Mason Verger, tearing off his own face with which the doctor fed his dogs, encouraging him to free himself to the point of self-destruction, in one scene (this is the first part of Hannibal, When the lambs fall silent) which is delirious, frenzied, bestialized, because it is precisely a psychologist like the cold-blooded Hannibal who shows the animal side of a man who is affected by the urge towards death to such an extent that it cannot be denied with any cultural gloss.