ABSTRACT
Heidegger's views on gender may seem a detour from the issue of Heidegger's Nazism, it is related; the crudest of Nazi ideology, the scapegoating, the brutality of the extermination of Jews, gays, Communists, gypsies, seem consistent with the locating of difference elsewhere. In the case of Nazi social policies, the violence enacted against the other involved torture as well as execution; the belief was not that truth resided in this other, but rather perhaps that utter falsity did, that truth would be purified by extermination of the other. The female body among others is still represented as a locus of truth the site of the hysteric's symptom, the place of an infinite jouissance beyond the phallus. And that truth will continue to beckon the torturer, the sexual abuser, who will find in the other slave, woman, revolutionary silent or not, secret or not, the receding phantasm of a truth that must be hunted down, extracted, torn out in torture.
