Perversions of fascism / Antonios Vadolas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vadolas, Antonios.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fascism--Psychological aspects.

Fascism.

Psychoanalysis.

Paraphilias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (470 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contemporary versions of evil demonise modern "fascists", "totalitarian threats", and "Hitlers". As if not obscure enough, fascist evil has been equivocally linked with perversion. This book reveals that both fascism and perversion implicate the non-symbolisable kernel in politics, which becomes the source of their mystification. It argues that the fascist does not take the same discursive position as the pervert does, regarding this symbolic gap.The authordevelops a new rhetoric, de-pathologised and de-ideologised, regarding the structure of the so-called pervert, introducing new vocabularies and directions for psychoanalytic research that further distance the pervert, or whom he calls the "extra-ordinary subject", from fascist politics and, instead, exposes his diachronic "fascist" isolation from the social edifice. This reveals the fruitful alternatives that can stem from a "return to Freud cum Lacan", which supports a flexible on-going reformulation of psychoanalytic knowledge.

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; PART I: FASCISM AND PERVERSION; Introduction: The perverse refractions of fascism: a retrospective; CHAPTER ONE: 1930's-1940's: The Frankfurt School and the Freudian left; CHAPTER TWO: 1940's-1970's: The authoritarian and evil profile of fascism; CHAPTER THREE: 1970's-1980's: Neo-Freudian perspectives; CHAPTER FOUR: 1990's: The surfeit of fascist jouissance; Part I: Conclusion; PART II: DISCOURSE; Introduction: The domination of the fascist and the Sadean master; CHAPTER FIVE: Power and mastery through the Lacanian prism

CHAPTER SIX: The Lacanian discourse CHAPTER SEVEN: Three masters, three systems of domination; Part II: Conclusion; PART III: ETHICS; Introduction: Imagine the law: domination and the ethics of desire; CHAPTER EIGHT: Sade with Kant and Eichmann; CHAPTER NINE: Ethics and guilt; CHAPTER TEN: From imaginary to democratic ethics; Part III: Conclusion; PART IV: POLITICS; Introduction: Politics and the embodiment of jouissance; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Beyond the fascist Utopia; CHAPTER TWELVE: Extra-ordinary anxiety; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Negating disavowal; Part IV: Conclusion

Conclusion: Love the object of your anxiety REFERENCES

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-429-91724-4

0-429-90301-4

0-429-47824-0

1-283-07083-9

9786613070838

1-84940-703-7

9780429478246

OCLC:

723944269