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Psychoanalysis & Narrative

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Isn't Trump an Interesting Figure of Super Ego?

I think Trump is more of a master signifier in the sense that he's, like, that his stupidity is central to his appeal. And I think that's how he gets invoked by all these people on the right today - even after his term has ended. In Hamlet, it literally is the paternal metaphor and functions as the master signifier. It both structures the symbolic universe and drives the narrative forward.

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