ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, we suggested that political myths enjoy a particular condensational capacity. Political myths are the result of a work on a common narrative that responds to a need for significance, that is, the need to live in a world that is not indifferent to us. The significance of a political myth expresses itself in highly condensed forms. This is patent in the role of icons, of single images that by means of a synecdoche are able to recall the whole work on myth that lies behind them.
