Political participation and the construction of the Self. On the base of a direct experience as candidate to the local election, a reflection arises about the politics as a need for the mind, a space for the construction of the Self. Politics as a crossing of the personal evolution pertinent to Oedipus, the fraternal complex, the organization of "me" and "non-me".
Keywords: Oedipus, fraternal complex, "me" and "not-me", familiar treaty