Male Fantasies Volume 2 Male Bodies: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror

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Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies, Volume 2 explores male bodies and the “white terror” through psychoanalytic and cultural theory. Building on historical discussion of Germany’s militarized contexts, the text analyzes mass embodiment, contagious lust, uncanny breakdown of bodily reality, and the relationship between mass culture, army discipline, and racial-national ideas. It then develops how sexuality is structured by military drill, reconstruction in academies, and the ego’s agency through blackouts, desire absorption, and battle-driven transformations of the body.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages534

Reading Time13 h 42 min

Foreword

Chapter 1. The Mass and Its Counterparts

Chapter 2. Male Bodies and the 'White Terror'

Preliminary Comments on the Agency of the Ego

klaus theweleit mta volume 2male bodies:psychoanalyzingthewhiteterror foreword by anson rabinbach and jessica benjamin Theory and History of LiteratureEdited by Wlad Godzich and Jochen Schulte-Sasse Volume 23. Klaus Theweleit Male Fantasies,2.Male Bodies:Psychoanalyzing the White Terror Volume 22.Klaus Theweleit Male Fantasies,1.Women,Floods,Bodies,History Volume 21.Malek Alloula The Colonial Harem Volume 20.Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean-Loup ThebaudJust Gaming Volume 19.Jay Caplan Framed Narratives:Diderot's Genealogy of the Beholder Volume 18.Thomas G.Pavel The Poetics of Plot:The Case of English Renaissance Drama Volume 17.Michel de Certeau Heterologies Volume 16.Jacques Attali Noise Volume 15.Peter Szondi On Textual Understanding amd other Essays Volume 14.Georges Bataille Visions of Excess:Selected Writings,1927-1939 Volume 13.Tzvetan Todorov Mikhail Bakhtin:The Dialogical Principle Volume 12.Ross Chambers Story and Situation:Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction Volume 11.Edited by John Fekete The Structural Allegory:Reconstructive Encounters with the New French Thought Volume 10.Jean-Francois Lyotard The Postmodern Condition:A Report on Knowledge Volume 9.Erich Auerbach Scenes from the Drama ofEuropean Literature Volume 8.Mikhail Bakhtin Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics Volume 7.Paul de Man Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism2nd ed.,rev. Volume 6.Edited by Jonathan Arac,Wlad Godzich,and WallaceMartin The Yale Critics:Deconstruction in America Volume 5.Vladimir Propp Theory and History of Folklore Volume 4.Peter Bürger Theory of the Avant-Garde Volume 3.Hans Robert Jauss Aesthetic Experienceand Literary Hermeneutics Volume 2.Hans Robert Jauss Toward an Aesthetic of Reception Volume 1.Tzvetan Todorov Introduction to Poetics volume 2male bodies:psychoanalyzingthewhiteterror klaus theweleit translated by erica carterand chris turnerin collaboration with stephen conway foreword by anson rabinbachand jessica benjamin MNE Copyright ◎1989 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota Originally published as Männerphantasien,Volume 2.Männerkörper:ZurPsychoanalyse des weissen Terrors by Klaus Theweleit,copyright ◎1978 byVerlag Roter Stern. All rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in aretrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the prior writtenpermission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South,Suite 290,Minneapolis,MN 55401-2520Printed in the United States on acid-free paperFourth printing 2003 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Theweleit,Klaus. Male fantasies. (Theory and history of literature;v.22-23) Translation of:Männerphantasien. Vol.2:foreword by Jessica Benjamin and AnsonRabinbach. Bibliography:v.1,p.[489]-501;v.2,p.Includes indexes.Contents:v.1.Women,floods,bodies,history一 v.2.Male bodies,psychoanalyzing the white terror. 1.Germany.Heer.Freikorps.2.Soldiers一 Germany-Sexual behavior.3.Fascism and sex. 4.Fascism and women.5.Psychoanalysis and culture一Germany.6.Fantasy.7.Sex in literature.1.Title.II.Series. UA717.T471987 3355.1'2’0943 86-25052ISBN 0-8166-1448-2(v.1)ISBN 0-8166-1449-0(pbk.:v.1)ISBN 0-8166-1450-4(v.2)ISBN 0-8166-1451-2(pbk.:v.2) Text designed by Gale Houdek.Cover designed by Craig Carnahan. Cover illustration:"Santo Domingo"by Mary Griep,courtesy of MC Gallery,Minneapolis,Minnesota The University of Minnesotais an equal-opportunityeducator and employer. Contents ix Foreword Jessica Benjamin and Anson Rabinbach 3 Chapter 1.The Mass and Its Counterparts The Mass as Embodiment of a Specific Unconscious3 Contagious Lust7 The Alien within as "Primitive Man'"21 Aspects of the Masses in Reality25 Women to the Fore27 36 The Uncanny Blackout,and Loss of Fle

FAQs

What central theme does this volume address?

The volume addresses how “male bodies” are formed and interpreted through psychoanalysis in relation to the “white terror,” linking bodily experience to militarized mass culture and ideology.

How does Chapter 1 frame the mass in psychoanalytic terms?

Chapter 1 treats the mass as embodiment of specific unconscious structures, examining elements such as contagious lust, an uncanny collapse of fleshly reality, and the interplay of mass, culture, and the army.

What topics are emphasized in Chapter 2?

Chapter 2 focuses on sexuality and drill, the reconstruction of the body in military academies, the “totality-machine” quality of troops, and how ego agency is affected through mechanisms like blackouts and the absorption of sexual desire.

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