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In this article I attempt to illuminate the five themes from Dynamic Systems Theory, that Dr. Gabriel Trop identifies in his compelling investigation of the political context in psychoanalysis and the politics of psychoanalysis (this issue). Drawing from my personal experience as an Iranian émigré and my work with my patients, I elucidate how a complex matrix of cultures, politics, languages and faiths intersect in the very ways Trop applies the dynamic concepts of changeability; disruption; experimentation; particularization; and exposure. The terms “phantom selves” and “phantomization”, are elaborated to describe the type of experiences that relate to the after-effect of traumatic loss. I suggest that rigidly administered religions, cultural ideologies, and unvarying traditions crush people’s souls and take them hostage. The intersection of politics and psychoanalysis (or the politics in psychoanalysis) has the potential to restrict and censor our lens and scope of inquiry. Ultimately, the politicization of psychoanalytic communities can reduce human complexity, collapse social multiplicity, and runs the risk of creating a new binary set of good-versus-evil moral absolutisms by which we—wittingly or unwittingly—measure psychological health.