Contents

Preface

1. Personality and Politics: Some Previous Psychoanalytic Work

2. The Surface Structure of the Dictator's Psyche

3. Personal Matters: My Stalinism Versus Stalin's Stalinism

4. Beating Determines Consciousness

5. Protecting the Idealized Self

6. His Best Defense

7. Beating the Children of Russia

8. His Special Interest in Feet

9. Plenty of Aggressors to Identify With

10. His Favorite Aggressor

11. Interacting Defenses

12. The Homosexual Element

13. Mental Collapse and Recovery

14. Summing Up

Postscript

Notes

References

Index