Why Politicians Act Like Children

A Psychoanalysis of Immature Geopolitics (Political Thought)

Political history often appears to be driven by ideology, strategy, or the cold arithmetic of power. Yet behind the speeches, alliances, and threats stand people whose inner world was formed long before they entered public office. This audiobook reveals the hidden psychological engines of geopolitics: childhood wounds disguised as doctrines, unacknowledged fears enlarged into national myths, infantile rivalries inflated into global crises.

Drawing on myth, psychoanalysis, developmental biology, and political psychology, Boris Kriger uncovers how unresolved family dramas shape the behavior of those who hold the fate of nations in their hands. The Oedipal tensions of early life reappear in the modern world as generational conflict, moral panic, ideological polarization, and the dangerous theatricality of leaders who confuse personal humiliation with national threat.

This is not an audiobook about blame. It is an audiobook about clarity—about seeing how the private becomes public, how the unspoken becomes historical, and how the early drama of recognition and rejection silently governs international affairs. By exposing the mechanisms through which childhood fear becomes geopolitical destiny, Boris Kriger offers a way to understand why politicians so often act like children—and how societies might finally outgrow the patterns that keep them trapped in cycles of conflict.

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