Psychoanalyst and philosopher G. Heath King says he didn’t completely buy Tiger Woods apology and suggested his apology event seemed “heavily scripted.”
But King suggested that Americans’ fascination with the golfer goes beyond voyeurism.
“He’s bringing up by his behavior issues that other people in other marriages are dealing with, whether it’s infidelity, divorce, or whatever,” he said.
“We need to be more inner directed and ask ourselves what his behavior means to us in our own lives, rather than attacking and condemning him.”
As for Woods himself, “his father basically defined who he was,” King said. “I don’t think Tiger Woods really ever got in touch with his real self and ever really defined who he was in his own values.”
Woods was seeking something deeper than sexual indulgence but didn’t even know what it was, King says.
Turning to the political scene King has mostly complimentary words for President Obama.
According to a Congressional Quarterly study, the president has had more success at bringing people in Congress together than any president since Lyndon Johnson, he said.
Obama has aged visibly in office, just like all presidents do early in their tenure, King says. Given all the difficult issues Obama faces, “I think he’s holding up quite well.”
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