ABSTRACT
For a malignant narcissist to be a leader, he must have a constituency and some sort of group. Such groupings are the arena of totalitaria, a cultic-dystopia marketed as an emerging paradise. Mind control is essential to this project. Robert J. Lifton’s principals of brainwashing are reviewed in this chapter, along with the BITE model of cult expert Steven Hasson, and the “bounded choice model” of Jan Lalich. Shaw’s psychoanalytic work on traumatizing narcissism also informs the discussion of mind control and high-pressure group formation. Globalism is reframed as the Corporate Totalitarian State, which operates under a malignant narcissist leader (MNL) archetype that mind controls global consciousness via advertising and mass media. It indoctrinates its victims into a consumer consciousness robbed of human dignity and mentally colonized by the Corporate Totalitarian State itself. Next, the chapter explores the membership of MNL led groups. Descriptions of people, groups, and organizations vulnerable to MNL takeover are provided. The authors further describe five categories of constituents who follow ego-syntonically, without psychodynamic conflict. Also addressed is the subject of the authoritarian personality, which emerged from the Adorno and the Frankfurt School, and group vulnerability to demagoguery. Trumpism is analyzed in terms of the group anxieties, hatreds, and neuroses of Donald Trump’s white American evangelical supporters, along with characterological psychodynamic correspondences between Trump and European populist demagogues as well as Trumpists and European nationalist reactionaries. It is concluded that the diseased interactions, or patho-dynamics between an MNL and followers, creates a variety of dangers, not only for outgroups, but for the totalistic group itself, and their destructive leader.
