ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses several questions about political change, using relationships between men as the raw material. The common-sense or obvious answers to these questions are that political ideas spread by word of mouth, by people's reading of texts, and by spawning organizations. A radical re-reading of the secret politics of highly charged relationships in the family can inspire new ideas about political forms, as well as helping to analyse existing ones. To the extent that psychology has built itself around sexuality and gender, these aspects of relations between people in conventional and unconventional families are the viable way to factor the psychological dimension into political discourse. Perhaps political forms involve psychological fields which influence their creation, existence and, mutability. It is still rather a mystery how political forms come into being and change over time.
