Book description
Contemporary versions of evil demonise modern "fascists",
"totalitarian threats", and "Hitlers". As if not
obscure enough, fascist evil has been equivocally linked with
perversion. This book reveals that both fascism and perversion implicate
the non-symbolisable kernel in politics, which becomes the source of
their mystification. It argues that the fascist does not take the same
discursive position as the pervert does, regarding this symbolic gap.
Antonio Vadolas develops a new rhetoric, de-pathologised and
de-ideologised, regarding the structure of the so-called pervert,
introducing new vocabularies and directions for psychoanalytic research
that further distance the pervert, or whom he calls the
"extra-ordinary subject", from fascist politics and, instead,
exposes his diachronic "fascist" isolation from the social
edifice. This reveals the fruitful alternatives that can stem from a
"return to Freud cum Lacan", which supports a flexible
on-going reformulation of psychoanalytic knowledge.
