“I'm very worried. Sunday, at the Louvre, I asked a guard where to find the room of Egyptian Sarkozycophages.”
As the French continue to document every fluctuation of his private and public life, an unhealthy obsession with the current French President Nicolas Sarkozy has developed. The condition has been dubbed “obsessive Sarkosis” by practicing psychiatrist Serge Hefez after so many of his patients spoke of Sarkozy during consultations. It is a manifestation of a citizen’s own persona, a reflection of the individual because Sarkozy represents things that many people identify with—narcissism, self-obsession, and a love for the finer things in life.
Yet these are negative enough to deflect the love of his citizens. While the French were initially infatuated with the stylish Sarkozy when he took office, his recent marriage to model/pop star Carla has made the French feel abandoned, neglected. Carla herself is a mirror image of her husband—self-obsessed and chic. The passion that once made him loved has now made him look informal, flaky and in love with a woman other than the general French public. The president is now resorting to toning down the blingage and appearing more formally and less frequently. Translated into politics, the revelation of the president’s private life as he cavorts around the French countryside with his new love is causing a distrust of the head politician and brings up questions of professionalism as the very same person that is featured on the front page of newspapers is also featured in the tabloids.
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