ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part explores the discursive framework of fascism’s relation to perversion. The psychoanalytic exploration of ethical questions is an essential task that can elucidate unconscious processes. Jacques Lacan states that the status of the unconscious is not ontological but ethical, that is, beyond being and the underlying causality that S. Freud discerned in it. Thus, by applying psychoanalysis to the question of ethics, the part aims to emphasize its primacy in the study of the unconscious and its resistance to the ontological sovereignty of Western philosophy that relates ethics to the ontological domain. It presents the National Socialist duty and explores whether it was its perversity that caused the unforeseen and irrevocable atrocities modern European history witnessed. Imagining a rigid law, which is not lacking, sets up a system of domination that alternates between violence and fantasies of grandeur.
