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The study of hegemonic social discourse and its relationship with individuals' psychodynamics leads us to understand the echo of its consequences on both individual and collective levels, and the purpose of the present study is to psychoanalytically explain the lower social class psychodynamics in the context of neoliberalism in Iran. This qualitative research was conducted by direct content analysis with nine participants. A purposive sampling method was used in which the samples were selected from lower-class people aged 20 to 40 years, who were living in Tehran. Finally, the findings were explained by psychoanalytic theories. The lower class dynamics include Narcissistic dynamics, Depressive dynamics, Schizoid dynamics, Paranoid dynamics, Psychopathic dynamics, and Phobic and Anxious-Avoidant dynamics. The analysis of these dynamics shows that in this context, citizens turn annihilation anxiety into fear of persecutory objects, and through projective identification, the lower class responds with retaliation and revenge in order to destruct the bad object.