Male Fantasies, Volume 2

Auteur

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).

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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.

Contenu

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.