Male Fantasies

by Theweleit, Klaus; Carter, Erica; Turner, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780816614516
• ISBN10: 0816614512
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Jessica Benjamin
Anson Rabinback
The Mass and Its Counterparts	3	(140)
The Mass as Embodiment of a Specific Unconscious	3	(4)
Contagious Lust	7	(14)
The Alien within as ``Primitive Man''	21	(4)
Aspects of the Masses in Reality	25	(2)
Women to the Fore	27	(9)
The Uncanny	36	(4)
Blackout and Loss of Fleshly Reality: Decomposition with the Mass	40	(3)
The Mass and Culture: The ``Upstanding'' Individual	43	(18)
Culture and the Army	61	(9)
Undefeated in the Field?	70	(3)
The Mass and the Race	73	(4)
The Nation	77	(17)
The People (das Volk)	94	(4)
The Whole	98	(9)
Excursus: The Sexualization of Language	107	(3)
A Forerunner on the Road to the Reich	110	(7)
The Speech	117	(13)
The Eyes	130	(13)
Male Bodies and the ``White Terror''	143	(128)
Sexuality and the Drill	143	(33)
The Body Reconstructed in the Military Academy	143	(10)
The Troop as Totality-Machine	153	(6)
The Totality-Component: Figure of Steel	159	(3)
Preliminary Comments on the Agency of the Ego	162	(2)
Blackouts	164	(6)
The Absorption of Sexual Desire	170	(4)
``Prussian Socialism''	174	(2)
Battle and the Body	176	(30)
Speed and Explosions: Contact with the ``Object''	176	(15)
The Site of War	191	(6)
The Soldierly Body, the Technological Machine, and the Fascist Aesthetic	197	(9)
The Ego of the Soldier Male	206	(46)
Fragmented Armor	206	(4)
The Ego and Maintenance Mechanisms	210	(15)
Ego-Disintegration and Work	225	(27)
Collected Observations on the Ego of the Not-Yet-Fully-Born	252	(11)
Fascism and the Family	252	(4)
Regression	256	(4)
Susceptibility to Analysis	260	(1)
Consciousness	261	(1)
Memory	261	(2)
``He Has It in Hand ...''	263	(8)
Projection	267	(1)
Aids to Full Birth	268	(1)
The ``Aggressive Nature'' of Human Beings	268	(1)
Mountains of Corpses	269	(2)
The White Terror as Bounding and Maintenance of the Self	271	(76)
Three Perceptual Identities Associated with the ``Undifferentiated Object of the Drives''	271	(35)
Black White Red	283	(6)
The Whip	289	(9)
Ritual Flogging and the Look	298	(8)
Homosexuality and the White Terror	306	(41)
Homosexuality and Sado-Masochism	307	(2)
Homosexual Desire	309	(5)
Controversy	314	(2)
Socarides's Overt Homosexual	316	(3)
Anal Intercourse as an Act of Maintenance	319	(1)
Homosexuality in the Military Academy	320	(7)
Transsexuality as Regulated Play	327	(5)
The Attractiveness of Men as a Social Quality	332	(3)
Freud and History	335	(1)
The Struggle for Power as a Struggle between the Homosexual and the Anti-Homosexual	336	(3)
Double Double-Bind	339	(1)
Backbiting	340	(7)
Conclusion	347	(78)
Preliminary Note	347	(2)
From the Inside	349	(37)
Peace	386	(39)
Notes	425	(52)
Bibliography	477	(14)
A Small Postscript to Volume I	491	(2)
The Last Page	493	(4)
Index	497