The Majesty of the Child: Emmanuel Macron from a psychoanalytic perspective

Whether he angers and hates you or impresses you and draws your attention, there is no doubt that French President Emmanuel Macron is one of the prominent political figures in his behavior and capabilities compared to his young age and "childish features".

There is no doubt that Macron’s personality is controversial and often contradictory in political positions and opinions, which are sharp fluctuations in essence, but they appear to the public as soft transitions, because Macron is one of the smart personalities who always seeks in his private life as well as politics to seduce others and impress them through rationalization and detailed justification Which is embodied in his repeated answers to journalists' questions, "Let me explain it to you."

Like any controversial political figure, there is a black box containing Macron's psychological secrets and a long psychological record that explains his behavior and positions, most of which appear on the surface in the form of success, achievements and achieving goals, and quite another part of them appears in the form of pathological narcissism, an overwhelming desire to seduce others and an intense hunger to impress To the extent that it prompted psychoanalysts to describe him as “the majesty of the child” who, no matter how advanced he is politically and socially, he still behaves like a child stuck in his childish needs.

For all of the above and more, in this report we will take you through a psychological journey from the upbringing of Emmanuel Macron to his accession to power in France, and then we will review the opinions of psychoanalysts about his personality and the controversial opinions of some of them about his exposure to sexual seduction in his adolescence by his current wife, and how this was reflected on His personality, behavior and fluctuations in his political opinions.

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The story begins in the town of Amiens in northern France, where Macron was born in 1977 to a doctor mother and a father who works as a neurologist and in a financially stable home, in addition to the high presence of his grandmother “Manette” during his childhood, which contributed mainly to planting the seeds of a love of knowledge and a passion for reading In the mind of Macron, who indicated on several occasions that it was his grandmother who introduced him to leftist culture and the ideas of the French left and explained them to him from an early age.

Macron was always used to being the special kid, the hard-working student in his classes.

You can imagine Emmanuel Macron in his childhood, very witty and brilliant, surrounded himself with many books, and was so self-confident that he preferred to spend his time with those of his age, and refused to hang out with girls of his age, and dined with his teachers He discusses and debates with them in what he reads, and this important feature of his personality accompanies him in his youth, as this passion overtook him to precede his peers and rub shoulders with those who are more experienced than him and in a higher position, and it is one of the basic trends in his personality that contributed to his access to the presidency.

In the spring of 1993, the fifteen-year-old stood on stage to perform "The Language of Comedy" by French poet and dramatist Jean Tardieu, in which he played the character of a scarecrow in an exceptional way that caught the attention of the audience, and this teenager will deliver it in front of his future wife, Brigitte Tronio”, who was his school’s drama teacher at the time, and who described him in a documentary: “He played the scarecrow, I remember that well, he was amazing, and he impressed me with his presence on stage.”

Brigitte Tronio was 24 years older than him, and she was 39 and married with children when Macron fell in love with her, and among her three children was a daughter the same age as Macron.

In a scene closer to being the plot of a movie or a romantic novel full of fundamental challenges and social barriers, despite all these obvious obstacles to the course of the relationship since its inception, Macron confided to Brigitte on one occasion: I will marry you no matter what.

Macron's relationship with Brigitte Tronio was not an easy one. Rather, both of them faced a number of obstacles in order to make it a success, starting with Brigitte's own resistance and reluctance, through the Macron family, who strongly opposed this relationship, and ending with Brigitte Tronio's marital status.

Macron's family deliberately kept him away from Brigitte by planning to complete his studies in Paris, yet Macron was communicating almost daily with Brigitte by phone and they talked for hours without the geographical distance between them preventing the continuation of the relationship.

In 2006, as part of a plan to turn their relationship into an official relationship, Brigitte Tronio divorced her husband 14 years after her first meeting with Macron, and they married in 2007 after he asked her children to marry their mother, as she described him as "Tiffine Ozier", Brigitte's daughter. , that he was stubborn and persistent, and did an astonishing job to be able to propose to Brigitte in marriage.

The story of Macron's falling in love with his future wife and his ability to get what he wants gives us a number of cognitive and behavioral lessons on the level of personality psychology: First, Macron does not appear to be the type to be risk-averse. On the contrary, he seeks to penetrate “impossible” spaces and impress. others by being able to turn the impossible into the possible.

Secondly, it seems that his moral conscience is silent and has no presence when he sets a goal in his head, whether his mistress is married or not, and whether she has children or not, he will seek to extract her at all costs.

And third, he has a high sense of psychological entitlement, self-efficacy and worthiness that makes him give early promises to goals and objectives that are not ratified by reality, something that has brought him positive and successful results in some aspects of his life, but it is a dangerous trend associated with some narcissistic traits that often blind its owner.

In addition, it seems that Macron’s mental and mental competence makes him fed up with his peers and refrains from mixing with them, so he always feels his need and desire to interact and communicate with those who are older and more experienced than him, and his relationship with his wife and his relationship with François Hollande - the former French president - And other statesmen, economists and politicians are an important hint about the nature of the mental match that Macron is looking for.

Finally, Macron appears to be one of the hardworking and persistent personality types who plan ahead and take their time to plan to achieve unattainable goals without making a fuss during their journey to achieve their goals.

This was not mere theoretical talk, as Macron was able to attract the attention of great men who surrounded him, as he was able during his studies of philosophy to meet one of the greatest French philosophers, the philosopher "Paul Ricoeur", and helped him to prepare and edit his book "

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In 1999, Macron went to study political science at the University of Political Sciences in Paris. At this stage, some points in his personality began to appear, such as his constant desire to extract the admiration of the surrounding people.

After graduating, Macron passed the examination of the National School of Administration, which is considered the high school that formed the high officials and ministers. He graduated from the institution and was among the top 15 students, and was appointed to the Financial Inspectorate.

Macron met with French-Jewish-Algerian thinker and writer Jacques Attali, who was supervising a committee named after him commissioned by Nicolas Sarkozy, to find ideas that would help revive the French economy.

Jacques Attali played a decisive role in opening a new chapter in Macron's life, one that would earn him a fortune and increase his grip on the global financial system, as he worked in a job at the famous Parisian bank "Rothschild", but this in return earned him contempt. The French left, which views bankers as evildoers, corrupts the land.

And because life in the private sector, no matter how rewarding it is, is, to its limits, unable to achieve major political goals of the size of the goals that Macron aspires to.

Jacques Atali and Emmanuel Macron

Atali suggested that Macron enter politics through political elections and work with François Hollande, who was preparing for the 2012 elections, when Hollande needed an economic adviser.

Macron then joined Hollande's team as an economic advisor, and after Hollande became president, he proposed to him the position of general secretary and assistant in economics and finance.

As a result, Macron was able to penetrate the Elysee Palace, the luxurious French palace where the elected president lives.

Macron began to study the ins and outs, not only wishing to remain an economic advisor to Hollande, but also aspiring to something more: the presidency. Macron was saying that in the coming years he would be president.

During his time inside the presidential palace, Macron displayed a keen interest in every detail, asking dozens of questions every day, trying to establish friendship with everyone, from the presidential guards in front of the palace to the cooks to the ministers and Hollande's guests, as he did while studying.

Hollande's ministers visited his office until late at night, and he had the ability and talent to talk to anyone, whatever his position, in terms of "peer to equal", until he was called "the little prince", close to the Elysee at this point said that everything In his manner of speaking and his concern for his appearance and appearance, he was trying to reach beyond a secretary or an economic advisor.

The planning process for this "political robbery" of the Elysee Palace entered a new stage after Macron left the presidential palace, protesting that he had not been appointed in the first government of Manuel Valls, but the latter pressured Hollande to give Macron the economic portfolio in the second government, and this is what has already been done.

Former French President François Hollande viewed Macron as his spiritual son, but this relationship, although it seemed harmonious on the surface, Macron was pleased to a number of those close to him and to journalists that he was not satisfied with Hollande's policies, and that he would change many things if he was He is in power. Macron has always felt special, much better than many in the country's seats of power.

In his office as Minister of Economy, Macron began to search for a solid ground for relations with the high people. He began to receive writers, scientists, intellectuals, analysts, actors and singers, to the point that people close to Hollande told him that something considered the young and handsome minister in the backstage.

Meanwhile, Macron established his "Forward" movement in French (E)n (M)arche, which shares his name with the first two letters.

He had already told Holland about this by 'I want to create a youth political current', but he didn't say much about his goals, and Holland wasn't in opposition, he thought it might also serve him in one way or another.

Macron, who was Minister of Economy in a left-wing socialist government, declared that his new current does not belong either to the right or to the left. It is an independent centrist movement, taking from each current what it likes and leaving the rest.

However, despite this statement, Macron showed a more inclination to the right, not only the Republican, but the extremist, during that period he kept meeting "Philippe de Villiers", the racist right-wing general who was one of the men of the last "Eric Zemmour" campaign, and despite this Macron, no matter what alliances he forms, he distances himself from entrenching himself in a clear camp and refuses to be reduced to a clear ideology. In one of the press interviews, Macron stated: I am not a socialist, I work in a socialist government, and this is a different matter.

To get to where he dreams, Macron needed to neutralize three main players: the former president, the left-wing Socialist Party, and the right-wing Republican Party.

Macron did not wait for Hollande to announce that he would not run for election, but did so before this announcement, after he jumped from Hollande's sinking boat and submitted his resignation from the government.

But he did not jump alone, but rather attracted Yves Le Drian, the former left-wing defense minister and current French foreign minister, who offered to join him if he won the government, which deprived the left of one of the most popular ministers of the current, and on the right Macron delegated "Edouard" Philip", who will become prime minister, on one occasion Macron told Philip: There is no need to waste time building a dilapidated Republican right at a time when we need to build a tired France.

The operation ended with the overthrow of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right.

Psychoanalysts: Macron is narcissistic and cunning, driven by a hunger to impress

On the level of psychological analysis of Emmanuel Macron's personality, "Adriano Segatori", the Italian physician and psychoanalyst, reviewed a number of literature that examined Macron's personal life, and "Segatori" indicated that the reasons for Macron's falling in love with Brigitte have another story in terms of his upbringing. , a controversial story that completely contradicts the official version, which talks about Macron's being subjected to harassment and deliberate sexual seduction by his teacher, Brigitte, who seriously sought to seduce him psychologically and physically out of her introspection of this young teenager's desire to exist.

The psychological anatomy that Sagatoori formulated for Macron's personality is based on the fact that this psychological and physical abuse of Macron's self was reflected in the deep and relentless desire to extract Brigitte from her husband, and to engage in an emotional relationship in the form of a compensatory marriage to fix the harassment incident and restore control over the course of his emotional and psychological life through an act of revenge in the form of Soft and romantic.

As happens to any adolescent subjected to the experience of deliberate sexual seduction, the most important psychological and cognitive lesson that settles in himself is the ability of others to violate taboos and breach permissible moral boundaries, after several questions about someone’s motives for violating the sanctity of his body, ending with the collision of the wall of desire that this person wanted to He achieves a goal and a desire within him, and he did so without taking into account any taboos or controls, which will be reflected on Macron by adopting a vision and a system of perception of reality that says: Allow everything in order to achieve my personal goals, ambitions and desires, according to what the psychiatrist Sagatoori indicated in his analysis.

According to the French psychoanalyst Roland Gurry, Macron cannot be understood in isolation from the importance and centrality of the presence of the female element in his life, and when we talk about the female element, this does not mean that he loves women or that he loves to be with many women or that he has uncontrolled sexual desires, but What we are talking about here, according to Roland Gurry, here is his desire for an older and more experienced caring “mother” element who needs to impress her and gain her constant affirmation of what he does, from his mother, whose child's infinite narcissism, to his grandmother, who enshrined his overconfidence, to With his wife, who is twenty-four years older than him, and who, in terms of symbolic function, takes the place of a mother who is always caring and emphasizing the feelings of her son.

From here, there are three main features that make up the personality of Emmanuel Macron: First, a cognitive system that does not believe in the existence of fixed moral limits or controls that rein in his personal desires and ambitions.

and second, his feeling of absolute power to do anything and to control anything by seduction and admiration.

And third, covert narcissism, which is described as malicious or cunning narcissism that can hide its pathological features despite a deep and dominant inner feeling of self-importance, preference, and superiority over all those around it.

It is narcissism that the psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams describes as enabling its owners to reach the highest political positions. That someone feels that he is mentally ill, as she points out.

The hidden and cunning features of narcissism become apparent and unfold in countless situations, based on a high sense of entitlement, and through the psychological Machiavellian trait in personality psychology, which refers to the individual's conviction that the victims deserve what is happening to them.

The best embodiment of these pathological features is the hysterical state of Macron when he is criticized or when his political views are challenged, a scene that has been repeated many times when he sees him talking about the poor in a more reprimanded form, and when he insults the workers in northern France and reduces them to a group of smokers, ignorant alcoholics and addicts Ideas that appear on the surface from time to time in their naked and abstract form of any political correctness, as will appear later in our discussion of his political and ideological convictions.

Diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder find it difficult to feel remorse and difficult to see themselves as wrong, and Macron, according to psychiatrist Sagatoori, is a narcissist who finds it difficult to feel remorse for what they say or about what they believe. his words, but he never expresses remorse for his controversial sayings;

Because they don't feel guilt in the first place, and it's hard for a narcissist to feel guilt in the first place.

This is why we find that Macron, as indicated by a psychoanalyst, has a real problem in maintaining good distances with people, as he either acts in an exaggerated manner in arrogance and arrogance, or acts on the contrary, trying to appear humble and very close to the different social strata, and we find him Dance with young people.

According to psychoanalyst "Seraj Hafez", during his hosting on Radio "Europe1", Macron according to psychoanalysis is very fond of himself, and fights in defense of preserving his distinguished image, and that he always needs self-confirmation by an older woman, and he cannot imagine A woman is older than him as an opponent or as any other form than a caring mother, and for this reason he can never accept Marianne Lupine, and confronts her within a divisive logic not limited to politics only, but from deep psychological points of view.

Macron's malignant narcissism is manifested in his dialogues and discussions. According to the psychoanalyst, "Seraj Hafez", Macron is making a great effort to appear as if he is very focused and attentive to the other, and he wants to appear as if he is ready to understand the other and accept what he will say, but he does all this while he Internally convinced that everything the other will say is just empty talk that will not affect his personal convictions, and he is thinking more about how to use the situation and the current moment to seduce and impress viewers and attendees, as he does not look for admiration for mere admiration, but rather the admiration that serves his goals and aims to convince others of his views and directions.

Impressing is more important than political principles. How do we understand Macron's political convictions?

To understand Macron's intellectual and ideological convictions, one must go back to the 1990s, when Macron was very much influenced by the official line, both in school and in the media.

During these years, the prevailing discourse viewed Europe as the future solution to the world, and that it would gather the scattered peoples of the region and end the state of national tension after the end of the Cold War.

A new continent forming a federal state similar to the United States of America. Macron saw in the formation of the European Union that dream that could preserve France and its strength, as the media said, and he has maintained this idea until now, as he is almost the only European candidate.

Economically, Macron sees the neo-liberal system as the real solution. He is not convinced by leftists' ideas about the need to support workers' rights, work fewer hours and raise wages.

Macron saw immigration as an opportunity for France to provide labor because of the weak states rates in the country, but then began to talk about securing borders, controlling immigration and imposing more state authority on those arriving with residency cards, and forcing learning French to obtain an extended stay.

Despite the great effort he shows to court people, the French president is the son of a well-off family, looks with a kind of condescension to the popular classes, and this clearly appears in his dialogues with angry citizens. However, this unemployed person is the one who does not want to work.

On another occasion - and he was then Minister of Economy - he told one of the protesters that he wears a suit of 3,000 euros because he works, while the average worker gets only 1,200 euros to live despite working for the whole month without interruption.

Macron grew up in the atmosphere of the nineties, when extremist individualism spread in Western societies and people focus on their goals and interests before the public interest, and therefore any success is mainly due to the effort of the individual and the preference for this success for the individual himself, for the successful in this generation, the failures deserved to fail because they are the reason behind this failure, ruling out any objective determinants.

It is clear that the French president is very pragmatic in the field of ideological ideas. He worked with a socialist government, after which he declared his neutrality between the right and the left. Then, after assuming power, he began addressing his decisions to the extreme right-wing segment of Marine Le Pen's electorate. He appointed "Gerard Darmnan" as Minister of the Interior, He is known for his extremism and racism, which led him to criticize Lupine one day and tell her that she had become fragile and soft only in dealing with the issue of the Islamic presence, along with other ministers who have clear racist positions, such as the Minister of Citizenship, "Marlene Schiappa", and the Minister of Education, "Michelle Blanquer".

Macron adopted an extreme right-wing strategy, supervised the issuance of the notorious Islamic isolationism law, tried to gather voters, and opened the way for fascists such as "Eric Zemmour", who said that Macron met with him and expressed his agreement with him on a set of points, including the invasion of immigrants to the country and the danger of the Islamic presence However, he had reservations about the steps Zammour suggested, as they would push the country toward a civil war, according to Zammour himself.

Now, during the second round of the current elections, Macron returned to warn against the extreme right and the danger of his ideas, and criticized Le Pen, who wants to ban halal eating and the veil in the public sphere, which brings us back to the psychological analysis of Macron's personality as a malignant narcissist who masters the manipulation of words and phrases;

To impress others and contain as many of them as possible.

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