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Freud would likely have diagnosed Donald Trump not with a traditional clinical pathology, but as an absolute embodiment of the uninhibited id, operating with a severely atrophied superego, and relying on the ego defense mechanisms of projection and denial to maintain a state of primary narcissism.
Freud's structural model of the psyche breaks down into three parts: the primitive id, the moral superego, and the mediating ego. From a Freudian perspective, Trump's psychology can be viewed through these lenses: