Male Fantasies: Volume 2: Male Bodies: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror

by Klaus Theweleit

University of Minnesota Press, 1989
Paper: 978-0-8166-1451-6
Library of Congress Classification UA717.T4713 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.120943

TOC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Foreword

Benjamin, Jessica
Rabinbach, Anson

Chapter 1.
The Mass and Its Counterparts

The Mass as Embodiment of a Specific Unconscious

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 Culture: The “up standing Individual”

Culture and the Army

Undefeated in the Field?

The Mass and the Race

The Nation

The People (das Volk)

The Whole

Excursus: The Sexualization of Language

A Forerunner on the Road to the Reich

The Speech

The Eyes

Chapter 2.
Male Bodies and the “White Terror”

Sexuality and the Drill

The Body Reconstructed in the Military Academy

The Troop as Totality-Machine

The Totality-Component: Figure of Stee1

Preliminary Comments on the Agency of the Ego

Blackouts

The Absorption of Sexual Desire

“Prussian Socialism”

Battle and the 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 Maintenance Mechanisms

Ego-Disintegration and Work

Collected Observations on the Ego of the Not-Yet-Fully-Born

Fascism and the Family

Regression

Susceptibility to Analysis

Consciousness

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 Maintenance of the Self

Three Perceptual Identities Associated with the “Undifferentiated Object of the Drives”

Black White Red

The Whip

Ritual Flogging and the Look

Homosexuality and the White Terror

Homosexuality and Sado-Masochism

Homosexual Desire

Controversy

Socarides's Overt Homosexual

Anal Intercourse as an Act of Maintenance

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-Bind

Backbiting

Conclusion

Preliminary Note

From the Inside

Peace

Notes

Bibliography

A Small Postscript to Volume I

The Last Page

Index

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