ABSTRACT
FOCUSING ON FATHERS This chapter and the next one concern the claiming or reclamation of ordinary, personal experience and imagery of the father for a psychological analysis of politics. This is achieved by means of a political reading of such personal imagery. The goal is to provide a political recuperation of the father-child relationship rather than the more usual psychological aim of understanding politics in terms of father-child relating. Hopefully, this opening of another way of thinking about the political permits something fresh to be said about the relationship between political and social reality on the one hand and psychic reality on the other.
