5. Displacement. When someone has an aggressive desire for something that can’t be satisfied, they might redirect it to others who are easier to blame. Watch Trump start to blame everyone around him for this loss and begin to fire people because of it...

I’m going to keep these in mind whenever I see Trump acting dangerously defensive, to try and understand what really lies behind his belligerence, bullying and whining. There is a real danger that if we don’t properly assess his mental state we might mispredict his next actions.

So thank you, Anna Freud, for providing keen insight, passed down through generation, that continue have such relevance to our current predicament with our current denying, projecting, regressing, rationalizing, anger displacing lame duck president.