"It's A Blow To The Imperial Idea And To Putin's Psyche."

• 24.05.2025, 19:20

A psychologist has compiled the top fears of the Russian dictator.

Putin has repeatedly proved that he is afraid of strikes on Moscow, afraid that his close people will betray him. Meta.ua decided to voice the TOP of Putin's innermost fears, what this bloody dictator is afraid of.

Human rights activist, practicing lawyer, psychologist by training Natalya Klimchuk agreed to help. She explores the impact of childhood trauma on leadership behavior, political processes, and transformational resilience.

"This analysis is made with reference to the typology and concepts of analytical psychology of Karl Gustav Jung. Not for justification - but for understanding. Because a person confined in his childhood traumas and shadow aspects of the psyche is capable of turning an entire country - or even the world - into a setting for his inner conflict," she said.

Fear of loneliness and abandonment

Putin was born in Leningrad a few years after the war. His parents survived the blockade and lost two sons. Putin spent a lot of time outdoors, virtually left to himself.

Analysis: this is a classic trauma of lack of secure attachment. A child, deprived of emotional response and warmth, either shuts down or learns to manipulate to survive. The feeling of "no one will save me" grows into the attitude "control everyone or you will die".

Appearances in adult life:

-pathological suspiciousness;

- refusal of close ties (no public friends, maximum closed family);

-demonstrative loneliness;

- zeal to control everyone and everything (internal repression, "vertical of power").

- constant self-assertion due to external victories.

Fear of humiliation

Some reports say Putin experienced ridicule and humiliation in his youth. Hence an early attraction to martial arts and a violent reaction to any show of defiance.

Analysis: this is an activated shadow - the rejected parts of the personality (fear, shame, weakness) that he projects on an external enemy. Anyone who disagrees is a threat.

Appearances in adulthood:

- intolerance of opposition;

- paranoia and constant purging of "traitors";

- frozen facial expressions - as a mask of vulnerability;

- suppression of any threat

Fear of losing control

From adolescence is the KGB, where discipline and control were a cult. In adulthood - total centralization of power.

Analysis: control is a form of protection against inner chaos. It is an attempt to cope with emotions because of external stability. The more fear - the tighter the system.

Appearances in adulthood:

- creation of a "vertical of power";

- fear of losing control;

- intolerance of the unexpected;

- war as a way to restore a personal sense of power.

Fear of Ukraine

Ukraine is not just a neighboring country. For Putin, it is a symbol. Neither an ally nor an enemy, but a far more dangerous figure - a mirror. A mirror in which he sees everything he cannot afford and everything that threatens his internal construct.

Ukraine went willingly, defiantly. It has chosen freedom. This is a blow to the imperial idea and to Putin's psyche: he couldn't hold on. And if he couldn't hold on, he is weak.

How this manifests itself:

- aggression in response to independence;

- denial of Ukraine's subjectivity;

- desire to "get it back" - for the sake of restoring his personal sense of importance.

- rhetoric about "control from outside";

- hatred of Ukrainian identity;

- an attempt to erase the difference between peoples.

Natalya Klimchuk also summarized the psychotype of the Russian dictator and suggested how everything will end for him.

"Psychologically, he has already lost. His fears have become visible, his reactions have become predictable, his goals have become phantom. The internal disintegration has begun." I see this scenario for the finale:

-personal isolation,

-loss of power,

-change of environment,

-psychosomatic collapse.

He will not go away a hero. And not a leader. He's a man who couldn't let go of his shadow. He didn't build an empire. And Ukraine will endure, because its strength is not in dominance, but in the ability to transform pain into freedom, fear into dignity, chaos into organization," the psychologist concluded.