The disease within the body of the people was the disease within his own body, a projection of a psychosomatic symptom. Genocide was the killing off of his own psychosomatic disease, projected into Germany. Political reality is a social construction and builds upon the experience of the body projected into the world. Nationalism is a reflection of immunological fantasy, that is, the experience of internal objects within the mind. Since the mind and body are bound together, the experience of objects within the mind are experienced as if objects within the body.
Metaphors lie at the essence of ideology and are the source of their structure and meaning.
Metaphor is the way unconscious phantasy is articulated in consciousness. Response to Jeanie. Response to Jeanie. Response to Jeanie. Response to Jeanie.