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This is the second volume of Theweleita s extraordinary study of the fantasies of some of the men centrally involved in the rise of Nazism. The author develops his account by focusing on the representation of masculinity and homosexuality and their relation to the preparations for and conduct of war.
List of contents
Foreword.
Chapter 1: The Mass and Its Counterparts. .
The Mass as Embodiment of a Specific Unconsciousness * Contagious Lust * The Alien within as 'Primitive Man' * Aspects of the Masses in Reality * Women to the Fore * The Uncanny * Blackout, and Loss of Fleshly Reality: Decomposition with the Mass * The Mass and the Culture: The 'Upstanding' Individual * Culture and the Army * Undefeated in the Field? * The Mass and the Race * The Nation * The People * The Whole * Excursus: The Sexualization of Language * A Forerunner on the Road to the Reich * Ths Speech * The Eyes.
Chapter 2: Male Bodies and the 'White Terror. Sexuality and the Drill * The Body Reconstructed in te Military Academy * The Troop as a Totality-Machine * The Totality-Component: Figure of Steel * Preliminary Comments on the Agency of the Ego * Blackouts * The Absorbtion of Sexual Desire * Prussian Socialism * Battle and te Body * Speed and Explosions: Contact with the 'Object' * The Site of War * The Soldierly Body, the Technological Machine, and the Fascist Aesthetic * The Ego of the Soldier Male * Fragmented Armor * The Ego and Maintainance Mechanisms * Ego-Disintegration and Work * Collected Observations on the Ego of the Not-Yet-Fully-Born * Fascism and the Family * Regression * Susceptability to Analysis * Conciousness * Memory * 'He Has It in Hand...' * Projection * Aids to Full Birth * The Aggressive Nature of Human Beings * Mountains of Corpses.
Chapter 3: The White Terror as Bounding and Maintainance of the Self * Three Perceptual Identities Associated with the 'Undifferentiated Objects of the Drives' * Black White Red * The Whip * Ritual Flogging and the Look * Homosexuality and the White Terror * Homosexuality and Sado-Masochism * Homosexual Desire * Controvesy * Socarides's Overt Homosexual * Anal Intercourse as an Act of Maintainance * Homosexuality in the Military Academy * Transsexuality as Regulated Play * The Attractiveness of Men as a Social Quality * Freud and History * The Struggle for Power as a Struggle between the Homosexual and the Anti-Homosexual * Double Double Blind *.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
About the author
Klaus Theweleit earned his Ph.D. in German Literature at the University of Friebourg and is now a freelance writer working in West Germany. He is the author of both
Male Fantasies (Polity Press, 1987) and
Male Fantasies, Volume 2 (Polity Press, 1989).
Summary
This is the second volume of Theweleita s extraordinary study of the fantasies of some of the men centrally involved in the rise of Nazism. The author develops his account by focusing on the representation of masculinity and homosexuality and their relation to the preparations for and conduct of war.
