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Author: Richard Koenigsberg
"The best critical analysis in English of Hitler’s thought."—Colin Day
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ABOUT HITLER'S IDEOLOGY
Why did Hitler initiate the Final Solution and take Germany to war? Based on analysis of Hitler’s rhetoric—the words, images and metaphors contained within his writing and speeches—Koenigsberg reveals the “hidden narratives” that were the source of genocide. The history Hitler created followed based on his fantasy that by destroying the Jewish “disease” Germany might live forever.
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Totalitarianism: the psychopathology
identification: refusal or inability to conceive of a self in separation from society; of a self that does not exist in a symbiotic tie to the nation. Most of us existence within this ideology. “Symbiosis” is not an “infantile phase of development.” It’s the ground of our being: the fantasy that we are connected to something “out there.”
Hitler:
Our Nation is not just an idea in which you have no part; you yourself support the nation; to it you belong; you cannot separate yourself from it; your life is bound up with the life of your whole people; the nation is not merely the root of your strength, it is the root of your very life.
Nazism was an extreme form of nationalism: belief that there is no separation between one’s country and oneself. Each of us has difficult conceiving of existence in the absence of a fantasy of being bound to our nation.
We imagine that we are part of a “dual unity:” no separation between self and the omnipotent system to which we are bound. “Selfnation:” no separation. Nationalism constitutes a psychosomatic system. Countries come to be experienced as if embedded within the self.
Nations constitute the fantasy of a body politic that never dies. Our actual bodies are in the process of decay. But countries (like culture) “lives on.” Academics especially bind themselves to the “never ending realm:” the symbolic order that seems to exist separately from individual existence. If there is no separation between the self and one’s immortal nation, then one can never die. One’s nation is the immortal part of the self.
After one’s own body has ceased to exist, the nation will “live on.” We “relocate” our actual body into the body politic. We bind ourselves to this gigantic sovereign. Individual bodies fuse with the body of the sovereign: no separation. Self-expansion and self-negation are one and the same.
“Obedience” is a psychosomatic phenomenon. Inability to resist the will of the sovereign: because one’s body is embedded within the body of the sovereign: no separation. Symbiosis as the bedrock of politics: one’s own body fused with the body politic. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
“Oppression” means the negative experience of being bound to this omnipotent body. What oppresses is attachment: the refusal to abandon the fantasy of omnipotence: wish to be bound eternally to the sovereign, an immortal body.
Rebellion gets one nowhere—because oppression is based on attachment. What is the nature of liberation? Can body exist in separation from the body politic?
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