Hussein became a dictator due to psychological injuries received in childhood

Saddam Hussein became a tyrant due to psychological injuries he received in childhood. This conclusion was reached by the psychoanalyst Alice Miller after studying the biography of the former Iraqi dictator, writes Der Spiegel in the material, which is published by Inopressa.ru .

The character of the tyrant does not change throughout his life, says Alice Miller. The dictator abuses his power until he encounters resistance, or until he can suppress any resistance in the bud. Because the personal, unconscious, hidden at all of the well -known activity, the goal remains unchanged - to forget the humiliations transferred in childhood.

But since this goal is unattainable, since you can neither destroy nor change the past, the dictator is doomed to failure, for which you always have to pay all new and new victims.

The dictators proved that before their own death they manage to seduce and subjugate people. They work on this while they live. Even being captivated, they have been in court and with the help of the media an open scene for performances in which they can imagine themselves both victims and saviors. In childhood, they did not know the basic right - the right to human dignity - and therefore look for him to replace in violence and deception.

Therefore, a long process is what they wish for themselves, which, however, cannot be allowed in any case. Indeed, on many people, while a child lives in them, at the same time afraid, respecting and loving his own father, who hits him, cruel seducers are able to impress him.

Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937 and grew up in the family of a peasant, who lived under Tikrite in beggarly, without her own scrap of land. According to his biographers, Saddam's father left his mother shortly or immediately after the birth of a child. His stepfather, the shepherd, constantly humiliated the boy, called him the son of a prostitute or dog, mercilessly beat him and tormented him in the most cruel way. In order to exploit the dependent child as much as possible, he forbade him to go to school up to ten years. Instead, he woke him in the middle of the night and sent him to work - to guard the herd.

During these years that determine the whole future life, each child develops ideas about the world and life values. He forms wishes, about the performance of which he dreams of. Saddam, who was a captive of his stepfather, could only mean one thing - unlimited power over others.

In his brain, probably, the idea arose that he can regain his dignity well -stolen from him only when he will have over others that his stepfather had above him. In his childhood there were no other ideals, other samples: there were only an omnipotent stepfather and he, a victim of terror. Later, according to this model, an adult Saddam created a totalitarian structure in his country. He knew nothing else but strength.

Any dictator denies children's suffering and tries to forget them through the illusion of their own greatness. However, since the person’s subconscious mind remembers all his past, sooner or later it forces him to clash with his own truth.

The fact that Saddam with his multi -billion dollar state was looking for asylum only in his small homeland, in a place where he had never received help, the hopelessness that accompanied him in childhood is clearly visible, which clearly illustrates the forced repetition of his past, the psychoanalyst believes.

Alice Miller notes that now in Europe, voices rises from many parties about human rights in relation to Saddam Hussein. According to the psychoanalyst, the reasons for this are by no means in anti -Americanism and have deeper, emotional motives.

The tyrant, without a doubt, mobilizes the displaced fears of once beaten children who could never blame their fathers (cannot do this today) and who keep loyalty to their fathers, despite all the torment they have suffered. Such a father symbolizes any tyrant. No one was particularly worried when the sons of Saddam were killed without trial. And all because they were not a symbol of the father, the attachment to which was determined by the blind hope that one day he would turn into a loving person.

The battered, tortured, humble children, whom no one has ever come to the rescue, as a rule, subsequently experienced greater tolerance for the cruelty of parents and at the same time striking indifference to the suffering of other tortured children. The fact that they themselves were such, they in no case do not want to remember, and indifference keeps them from their eyes open, the expert writes.

They become the "lawyers of evil", even if they are convinced of their humane intentions. From early childhood, they had to learn to suppress their true feelings and ignore them, they had to follow exclusively the requirements of parents, teachers and religious authorities. Now the duties of an adult do not leave them time to realize their own feelings. Unless they fit into the patriarchal system of values ​​in which they live.

The psychoanalyst notes that the dictators like Hussein are dangerous, because they can live only possessing power and directing it against other people.