Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in mothers hands is a playful exploration of how people s desires, fantasies, and emotions shape political events and social phenomena. It highlights the mythical sources of today s political projects, the power of political imagination, and the function of symbolism in political thought. Eszter Salgo argues that the driving force for the formation of political communities is fantasy illusions in a Winnicottian sense, phantasies in a Lacanian sense, phantoms as described by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, and dreams as interpreted by...