Which is a great pity, because if one cuts out all the Freudian claptrap, Abse has produced a brilliant character analysis of the Prime Minister, and of the whole Thatcher phenomenon, which succeeded in scaring the wits out of me. 
It is enough to attribute the rage with which she invests every issue to primal narcissism, the rage provoked by any threat of helplessness. 
We can observe that she is happy only when she is furious, and do not need to have it suggested that her earlier nickname of `Thatcher Milk-Snatcher" <tag "515648">derived</> from her own breast-deprivation, which denies her all happiness and allows her `only the sadistic triumphs of tawdry political and military victories."   

