ABSTRACT
In post-First World War Germany, National Socialism discerned the influence of such utopianism over the youths and the intellectuals of the time and systematically cultivated the dark romantic image of superman, a kind of anti-Christ. Nazism’s ideal was augmented by one image: the Aryan superman whose natural power is endowed with corporeal perfection. The realization of this ideal laid down the basis for the destructive utopian politics of fascism. Fascist morality endorsed the “new man” as an unrestrained type of (super) man motivated by an innate power of superiority. The difference of Nazism from other horrific consequences brought by the collapsing of an ideological fantasy was that there was a real object, a left-over that occupied this empty space. To comprehend this, suffice it to recall the Holocaust carnage, as captured by the cameras of the Allied armies. The viewer is absorbed by the boundless jouissance unleashed by the falling object.
