What if government is encircled by fantasy? Not a mistake, not a policy—but a dream, a dynamic dreaming with teeth?
Most analysts chase outcomes: wars, elections, treaties. We chase events and rational connections that imprison ourselves and actors in fantasies that even we cannot see. We chase something deeper—the fantasy behind the action. We even chase the fantasy determining our own vision as partakers in fantasy by our involvement through analysis.
In this first episode of our Psychopolitical Symbolics series, Alexander Carberry sits down with Meticulous Prime to introduce a radical new method of political interpretation. Drawing from Lacan, Foucault, Mbambe, Fanon, and the contemporary wreckage of empire, they argue that what drives political life isn’t merely rational interest or material need—but libidinal investment in symbolic coherence.
We don’t act because it’s smart. We act because it feels necessary for survival. Because it completes a fantasy of who we are and anchors our fantasy by imposing fixidity upon the other.
This episode begins with a bold proposition: “Politics is the libidinal mediation of phantasmatic relations.” From this axiom flows an entirely different kind of analysis—one that reads states like psyches, sees war as symbolic drama, and understands power as a structure of desire.
Here, you’ll learn: Why fantasy is not optional—and how it structures global conflict. How Israel’s strategic posture performs its unresolved trauma. Why rationality often masks the real engines of action. And how to read the symbolic terrain behind every political crisis. This isn’t just theory. It’s a toolkit for navigating collapse. If you’ve ever sensed that something deeper than logic is at work in geopolitics—this episode is your invitation to name it.
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