Donald Trump is not a Shameless Toddler: The Problems with Psychological Analyses of the 45th US President

This essay critically analyzes two dominant narratives that explain and lament the rise of Donald Trump in the United States. First, I extend Jill Locke’s (2016) concept of “The Lament that Shame is Dead" to show the limitations of criticizing Trump in terms of the “death of shame.” I then turn...

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Autor principal:	Jill Locke
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Publicado:	University of Groningen Press 2019
Materias:	shame shameless donald trump child populism Social Sciences H Political science (General) JA1-92 Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:dfccc624a4d84cef8ceefac3c897e40a2021-12-02T18:15:00ZDonald Trump is not a Shameless Toddler: The Problems with Psychological Analyses of the 45th US President1875-7103https://doaj.org/article/dfccc624a4d84cef8ceefac3c897e40a2019-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://krisis.eu/article/view/37196https://doaj.org/toc/1875-7103This essay critically analyzes two dominant narratives that explain and lament the rise of Donald Trump in the United States. First, I extend Jill Locke’s (2016) concept of “The Lament that Shame is Dead" to show the limitations of criticizing Trump in terms of the “death of shame.” I then turn my attention to the problems inerent in recent characterizations of Trump as a petulant child. Drawing from Locke (2016) on shame and Freud (1914) and Lee Edelman (2004) on the politics of “the child,” I argue that characterizing Trump as shameless, childish, or as a shameless child only affirms, rather than deposes, Trump’s right-wing populist strategy and keeps the focus on him as a personality rather than on the broader social and political context in which he emerged. I argue this has implications for the rise of right-wing populism in the West, more broadly.Jill LockeUniversity of Groningen Pressarticleshameshamelessdonald trumpchildpopulismSocial SciencesHPolitical science (General)JA1-92Philosophy (General)B1-5802ENNLKrisis, Vol 39, Iss 1, Pp 37-45 (2019)
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description	This essay critically analyzes two dominant narratives that explain and lament the rise of Donald Trump in the United States. First, I extend Jill Locke’s (2016) concept of “The Lament that Shame is Dead" to show the limitations of criticizing Trump in terms of the “death of shame.” I then turn my attention to the problems inerent in recent characterizations of Trump as a petulant child. Drawing from Locke (2016) on shame and Freud (1914) and Lee Edelman (2004) on the politics of “the child,” I argue that characterizing Trump as shameless, childish, or as a shameless child only affirms, rather than deposes, Trump’s right-wing populist strategy and keeps the focus on him as a personality rather than on the broader social and political context in which he emerged. I argue this has implications for the rise of right-wing populism in the West, more broadly.
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title	Donald Trump is not a Shameless Toddler: The Problems with Psychological Analyses of the 45th US President
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Donald Trump is not a Shameless Toddler: The Problems with Psychological Analyses of the 45th US President

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