ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part presents the disengagement of psychoanalysis from a discursive contextualization that follows a specific ideological orientation. A Lacanian critique of ideology has to evolve from an extra-ideological position. In this regard, the analysis of the connection between fascism and perversion should elucidate an ideological phenomenon from a psychoanalytic perspective, without using the psychoanalytic theory on perversion as a way to defend and reintegrate views coming from either rightist or leftist perspectives. The part focuses on the statements enunciated by narratives that inject perverse sexuality to fascism. These statements are analysed on the level of discourse: what organizes the subject’s reality. The part discusses the limits that the pervert and the fascist appear to surpass, challenging the idea of deviation. The term “perverse” appears as a signifier for any parasitic condition that escapes firm symbolic meaning.
