ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the illusions-primitive wishes and anxieties-that the fascist group shares with the fascist leader constitute the essence of the fascist state of mind. The elated/paranoid state of mind on the other hand has as its purpose not the preservation of the object but the destruction of the object-or to put it more clearly the destruction of the differentiation between subject and object in the elated state, and the extermination of the object in the paranoid state. The emptiness of a leader like Hitler has been commented upon by many perceptive observers. Fabian's pact with the Devil appears like a life-saving solution. Leaving his own body and his mother behind Fabian creates more and more distance between his real self/body/mother and his new manufactured self. The only 'real' object is the will to power. This may explain the 'shifting' ideology of Hitler's Party, the constant change of policies and the belief in omnipotence.
