Three Tropes on Trump
A Textbook on Applied Marxism, Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Karl Marx and “The Donald”
- A Primer on Marxist Theory
- Problems People Face With Marxism
- Invincible Ignorance
- The Ideology of Individualism and the Self-Made Man and Woman
- The Classless All-Middle Class Myth
- The Unimportance of Entertainment and Popular Culture
- The Far-fetchedness of Marxist Theory
- Quotations on Marxist Theory
- Society Determines Consciousness, Not Consciousness Society
- The Base and the Superstructure
- Class Conflict
- False Consciousness and Class Conflict
- Using Marxism to Analyse “The Donald”
- The Art of the Insult
- Inequality and Class Conflict
- Ideology
- Post Truth
- Aaron Wildavsky and the Four Political Cultures
- Trump’s Base and Alienation
- A Political Cartoon Attacking Trump
- The Myth
- History
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Elite Culture: N/A
- Popular Culture
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Chapter 2. Semiotic/Discourse Analysis
- A Primer on Semiotics
- Culture Codes
- Trump’s Hair
- Trump’s Body Language
- Facial Expressions
- Trump Speak
- Metaphor and Metonymy
- The Restricted and Elaborated Codes of Language
- Humor Theories and Trump Jokes
- Superiority Theories
- Psychoanalytic Theories
- Incongruity Theories
- What Makes Us Laugh: An Original Contribution to the Subject
- Radio Erevan Joke: Comrade Gasparov
- Anti-Trump Jokes
- Trump as Comedic Performance Artist
- Trump and the Society of Spectacle
- Summary
- Chapter 3. Psychoanalytic Approaches: Trump’s Psyche
- A Primer on Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory With Annotations
- The Unconscious
- The Structural Hypothesis
- The Myth of Oedipus and the Oedipus Complex
- The Myth of Narcissus and Narcissism
- Human Sexuality
- Symbols
- Defense Mechanisms
- Psychopathology
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- The Child Is the Father of the Man
- Donald Trump’s Signature
- Summary
- Chapter 4. Coda
- A Fugue
- Trump and the Media
- Trump as a Postmodernist President
- The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning
- Chapter 5. How I Wrote This Book
- About the Author
- Index
Arthur Asa Berger
Three Tropes on Trump
A Textbook on Applied Marxism,
Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis
PETER LANG
New York • Bern • Berlin
Brussels • Vienna • Oxford • Warsaw
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Berger, Arthur Asa, author.
Title: Three tropes on Trump: a textbook on applied marxism, semiotics, and psychoanalysis / Arthur Asa Berger.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019022434 | ISBN 978-1-4331-7031-7 (hardback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-7028-7 (ebook pdf) | ISBN 978-1-4331-7029-4 (epub)
ISBN 978-1-4331-7030-0 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Trump, Donald, 1946– —Psychology.
Trump, Donald, 1946– —Language. | Trump, Donald, 1946– —Public opinion.
Political psychology—United States. | Political leadership—Psychological aspects.
United States—Politics and government—2017–.
Classification: LCC E913.3 .B47 2019 | DDC 973.933092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022434
DOI 10.3726/b16097
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About the book
Three Tropes on Trump: A Textbook on Applied Marxism, Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis uses the term “trope” in an unusual way—not as an expression in a figurative sense but as a form or method of analysis. This book uses Marxist theory, semiotic theory, and psychoanalytic theory in an attempt to understand what we might call the Trump phenomenon and the Trump style. Each chapter features a primer on its methodology, and it applies concepts from these theories to Trump’s candidacy and presidency, covering everything from his hair style, his use of spectacle, his use of insults, his comedic aspects, his personality, and his many psychological problems to help make sense of Trump and his relationship to his base and to the American public.
This eBook can be cited
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Table of contents
Chapter 1. Karl Marx and “The Donald”
Problems People Face With Marxism
The Ideology of Individualism and the Self-Made Man and Woman
The Classless All-Middle Class Myth
The Unimportance of Entertainment and Popular Culture
The Far-fetchedness of Marxist Theory
Society Determines Consciousness, Not Consciousness Society←vii | viii→
The Base and the Superstructure
Details
- Pages
- XXII, 130
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433170287
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433170294
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781433170300
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433170317
- DOI
- 10.3726/b16097
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2019 (December)
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2019. XXII, 130 pp., 9 b/w ill., 4 tables
