Ideologies become central within a society when they allow fantasies to be expressed, articulated and enacted in the world. They are containers for shared fantasies, driving the historical process.

Where Freud interpreted individual dreams and dreaming, Koenigsberg interprets collective dreams and dreaming. This is what I mean when I speak about making conscious the unconscious in social reality.

The Nazi revolution constituted the enactment of a dream that many people were having at the same time—a shared fantasy powerful enough to give rise to an ideology and social movement. Dreaming this dream most deeply, Hitler was able to articulate the Nazi fantasy. To know why Nazism achieved popularity, we need to determine precisely what Hitler said that caused Germans to rise to their feet and shout "Heil Hitler."