Philip Nobel

Remainders, Miscellany and the Occasional Rant

Identification with the Aggressor

Remember, O my flock, when I was musing that there must be a psychoanalytical term-of-art to describe what’s gone wrong in Hillary’s head, what with the Rovian tactics and the curtsying at the court of Scaife and the scary, scary very red phones (not to mention Bill endorsing Operation Chaos by appearing on Rush Limbaugh the day before the Texas primacaucus)? Well, I remembered just now, on my very own red phone, that my dad’s a shrink. “Identification with the aggressor,” he said, “It’s from Anna Freud.” And so it is.