ABSTRACT

This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part focuses on the type of discourse that better describes fascism and questions its link to perversion at a systematic level, by implementing the logic of the four discourses that Jacques Lacan outlined in his Seminar XVII. Narratives about fascism create implicit or explicit discursive links of the phenomenon with perversion. The part attempts to put forward an elaboration that disengages psychoanalytic research on concepts under development from their casual linking to ideological issues. Psychoanalytic research should be conducted within the discourse of the analyst, exploring the lack inherent to all forms of subjectivity. At the level of fantasy, it is very difficult to distinguish the lines that dichotomize the power of the fascist from that of the pervert, since they both strive for the same goal, to make the other complete, non-lacking.