Sigmund Freud said in 1919 that Woodrow Wilson had entered that psychic fantasy land, when Wilson was trying to get the Treaty of Versailles approved and calling that dastardly pact (which helped bring Hitler to power) things like “the incomparable consummation of the hopes of mankind.” I hold no brief for Freud, but it seems … Continue reading “…that psychic land…in which facts are the products of wishes…”