The Phaeton complex is a psychological condition . Maryse Choisy describes it as a 'painful combination of thoughts and emotions caused by the absence, loss, coldness, or traumatizing behavior of one or both parents, resulting in frustration and aggression'  Micha Popper, Hypnotic Leadership: Leaders, Followers, and the Loss of Self, Praeger, 2001, p.25 . Micha Popper disputes that an unhappy childhood always leads to obsessive urges, citing Winston Churchill as an example where childhood unhappiness had positive results  Micha Popper, Hypnotic Leadership, Praeger 2001, p.26 . The theory was devised by Lucille Iremonger, who in 1970 studied the 24 British prime ministers who held office from 1809 to 1940. She found that 62\% of these men had lost one or both parents by age 15, compared to a national average of 10-15\% in those times  Mostafa Rejai and Kay Phillips, Leaders and Leadership: an Appraisal of Theory and Research, Praeger, 1997, p. 46. Hugh Berrington expanded on the theory in 1974. Berrington found that sufferers from the Phaeton complex are less sociable, flexible or tolerant, but instead are ambitious, vain, sensitive, lonely and shy  Hugh Berrington, The Fiery Chariot, British Journal of Political Science, 4:345-369 . The name derives from the Greek myth of Phaeton, a child of the sun god, who demands to drive his father's chariot and in doing so, falls to earth and scorches the Sahara Desert  Tom McTague, Boris Johnson meets his Destiny, The Atlantic, 22 July 2019
The Phaeton complex is a psychological condition described by Maryse Choisy as a 'painful combination of thoughts and emotions caused by the absence, loss, coldness, or traumatizing behavior of one or both parents, resulting in frustration and aggression' . Micha Popper, Hypnotic Leadership: Leaders, Followers, and the Loss of Self, Praeger, 2001, p.25 Micha Popper disputes that an unhappy childhood always leads to obsessive urges, citing Winston Churchill as an example where childhood unhappiness had positive results . Micha Popper, Hypnotic Leadership, Praeger 2001, p.26 The theory was devised by Lucille Iremonger, who in 1970 studied the 24 British prime ministers who held office from 1809 to 1940, and found that 62\% of these men had lost one or both parents by age 15, compared to a national average of 10-15\% in those times . Mostafa Rejai and Kay Phillips, Leaders and Leadership: an Appraisal of Theory and Research, Praeger, 1997, p. 46 Hugh Berrington expanded on the theory in 1974, finding sufferers of the Phaeton complex to be less sociable, flexible or tolerant, instead being ambitious, vain, sensitive, lonely and shy . Hugh Berrington, The Fiery Chariot, British Journal of Political Science, 4:345-369 The name derives from the Greek myth of Phaeton, a child of the sun god, who demands to drive his father's chariot and in doing so, falls to earth and scorches the Sahara Desert . Tom McTague, Boris Johnson meets his Destiny, The Atlantic, 22 July 2019
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