Bush's early rebellions against his overachieving father and domineering mother led to self-destructiveness and alcoholism, feelings which still motivate him. Psychologist Oliver James says that after nearly killing himself and a passenger in a plane he was not qualified to fly, Bush experienced a personal crisis.
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Not long afterwards, staring at his vomit-spattered face in the mirror, this dangerously self-destructive man fell to his knees and implored God to help him and became a teetotalling, fundamentalist Christian ...
But the rejection of the values of his youth amplifies Bush's tendency to authoritarianism; it locks him into a rigidly black and white mind set. Bush is not happy.
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Authoritarian personalities are organised around rabid hostility to legitimate targets, often ones nominated by their parents' prejudices. Intensely moralistic, they direct it towards despised social groups. As people, they avoid introspection or loving displays, preferring toughness and cynicism. They regard others with suspicion, attributing ulterior motives to the most innocent behaviour. They are liable to be superstitious. All these traits have been described in Bush many times, by friends or colleagues ...
Intensely angry at his parents, Bush lashes out at the entire world. It's a displacement for which everyone, including Bush himself, pays the price:
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He hated his father for putting his whole life in the shade and for emotionally blackmailing him. He hated his mother for physically and mentally badgering him to fulfil her wishes. But the hatred also explains his radical transformation into an authoritarian fundamentalist ...
... his unconscious hatred for them was channelled into a fanatical moral crusade to rid the world of evil. As Frum put it: "Id-control is the basis of Bush's presidency but Bush is a man of fierce anger." That anger now rules the world.http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html
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