ABSTRACT
From the European school of modern neo-Freudians, J. Chasseguet-Smirgel is a leading name whose work on perversion expanded the psychoanalytic conception of the term, viewing it as an indivisible feature of psychic reality. It has been known since S. Freud that, on the level of fantasy, perverse scenarios, both conscious and unconscious, operate in all psychic structures. K. Theweleit’s narrative produces a feeble interlacing between gender issues, sexuality, and the ferocity of fascism’s barbarism. The blurring of the margins between Nazism, fascism, the military man, and the male tyrant suggests that masculinity is formed by the fear and loathing of the feminine as the image that haunts male fantasies and nurtures destructive impulses. For Theweleit, the fascist wishes to abrogate the mother’s feminine hypostasis, implementing perversion as a defence to psychosis. The lure of fascism stems from the odium and the fear of the female body that feeds its fantasmatic constructs of violence and aggression accompanying male dominance.
