ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part focuses on the futile and bewildering intoxication of fascism with perverse traits and its persistence in contemporary politics. It presents the discursive constructs about the fascist pervert to the “fascist” outlook of discourses on perversion, recognizing the need to proceed to a relinquishment of the prosaism that regards the category of perversion as social menace. The uncomfortable position of anxiety caused by another subject’s blatant digression from the normative sexual modality or morality leaves no space for negotiation. By labelling the subject a pervert, anxiety is given a name and a cause, without itself being openly confronted. Provocative per se, the acquisition of perverse jouissance has been associated with all marginal divisions of a society that has never sufficiently justified this marginalization. Power serves a particular good that needs to be protected from the corrupting effects of jouissance.
