Three Tropes on Trump: A Textbook on Applied Marxism, Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis

Cover
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