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This paper is about trying to use a psychohistorical and psychoanalytic perspective to understand how and why we have gotten to the point where the world we live in is governed by our current economic system of free market capitalism. It seeks to explain how this economic and political reality has come to be and what might account for how entrenched it has become. It emphasizes the motivational strength of what has become an ideology of the free market which conflates economic with political freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the concept of partisanship in the discipline of psychohistory, and how such partisan distortion may impact psychohistory. It examines articles by scholars Jerrold Post, Nancy Kobrin, and the book "Death Orders: the Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia" by Anna Geifman. It also discusses the motivation of large groups and nations. The author also discusses the concept of American exceptionalism and argues that it is a form of national narcissistic personality disorder.