ABSTRACT
Gradually, I have become aware that it is not enough merely to describe the political as a psychoid phenomenon, meaning that it is constituted out of intersections of psychic reality and social reality. Politics is also a transpersonal activity and, like most transpersonal activities, politics points in what can only be described as a spiritual direction.1 Depth psychology is not a religion, though it may be the heir to some aspects of conventional religion. The project of factoring the psychological into the political seems to want to be done in quasireligious language. Perhaps this is because depth psychology, politics and religion all share, at some level, in what I referred to in Chapter 2 as the fantasy of providing therapy for the world. The very word ‘fantasy’ must, I am sure, have made problems for some readers. It certainly is a struggle to work the perception that fantasy is not pathological into an understanding of the necessarily utopic role of fantasy in political discourse.
