ABSTRACT
Totalitarian regimes implement their agendas in extremes, as seen in Nazi Germany, in the former Soviet Union, or as is taking place in modern day Cuba. Tyrannical regimes are alike because they are driven by the common aim to put into practice, at any cost, private, omnipotent, and megalomaniac phantasies of the leader. Che Guevara’s personality structure and unconscious dynamic profile is completely different from those found in “totalitarian dictators” such as Castro, Mao, Hitler, or Stalin, who, instead responded to an unconscious need to “possess” and “control”. Genital fixations will determine if the mother will use the baby to deal with her own phallic envy, but in more regressive mothers, when the fixations correspond to previous psychosexual stages, the baby could be narcissistically identified with faeces or with the breast. There is an important dilemma within the “basic delusion” as a mechanism used to disavow castration anxiety.
