It is at this point where the addict's need for love is upstaged by hate, that Levin begins to get off track. Soon another dynamic emerges. Clinton did not attempt to establish any sort of relationship with these women, nor did he make any efforts at seduction. But, here Levin is reading beyond the record and also reading subjective meanings into alleged events we cannot verify. While this is bad enough, what troubles me even more is that Levin does not realize he has begun portraying a type of sexual behavior at odds with his own paradigm.
Addicts use their substance recklessly and compulsively, but have no intrinsic desire to humiliate.
The element of danger cited in the criteria refers to unconcern for one's own safety. That he enlisted troopers to get him women is consistent with his high-risk behavior with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. I discussed this idea with Lloyd deMause a number of years ago and he suggested that both JFK and Clinton needed to get back at mother by humiliating their wives with other women. Either can evoke the figure of the mother. Since mother figures in classic perversions as a phallic woman, the addition of danger is needed to master castration anxieties.