ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part attempts to disengage perversion from the ethical debate regarding fascist atrocities and their relation to Kantian ethics. The sense of symbolic debt that would hypostatize the Kantian ethical duty is absent in domination. The acceptance of castration and the dead status of the signifier are the limits of the symbolic, where one blunders upon death as the fundamental truth of existence. More than clinging to the certainty and the particularism of a fantasy of a supreme ideal that dominant power promotes, the subject has to come to terms with symbolic death. The dominant master instrumentalizes the other as the imaginary overtakes the symbolic. The Sadean libertines’ efforts serve the imaginary goal of an ultimate evil that sweeps everything just to destroy itself at the end, whereas the Nazi fascist imagines a supreme Aryan nation that imposes a new universal order.
