Abandoned soul in political vision (7,8)
I believe the answer is:
optical illusion
'vision' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.
'abandoned soul in political' is the wordplay.
'abandoned' indicates anagramming the letters.
'soul'+'in'+'political'='soulinpolitical'
'soulinpolitical' is an anagram of 'OPTICAL ILLUSION'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for optical illusion that I've seen before include "One can't really see it" , "Mirage" , "It's not what it seems!" , "trick" , "outwardly deceptive" .)