Fascist ideology neutralizes feminized productive desire to erect sterile death-driven order.

Evidence

For these purposes Theweleit draws extensively on Deleuze and Guattari’s famous notion of machine desirante - a sucking pumping machine linking mother’s breast and baby’s mouth in a symbiotic matrix of libidinal energy “without subjects.” In their book Anti-Oedipus Deleuze and Guattari (1983) argue that this “psyborg” entity constitutes the very aliveness of the real, characterized as it is by teeming polysemy, and an endless flux of desire; this productive power, which, they argue, is that of the Unconscious itself, is by definition associated with the fertility of women’s bodies. … Theweleit now takes over to argue that it is precisely this feminine force of production that is so threatening to the patriarchal order - and hence has to be crushed, stamped out, or otherwise neutralized before being reinvented in a monolithic order invested with a sterile dynamism dominated by the death drive. That, in his view, is the psychodynamic work which fascist ideology does on behalf of the soldier males of the Freikorps and whose effects can be read between the lines of the letters they send home to their mothers. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1374

Categorization

• XREF: Definitional grounding: presents a psychoanalytic mechanism (crushing feminine productive flux) beneath the racial formation of the fascist Other. — connects to: Fascist body-worship masks a repressed death-wish that aligns with killing — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 222; Fascist ideology reframes duty as heroic suffering stripped of economic content — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 570; Mass killing requires ideology to overcome taboos against killing — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 18 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fascist body-worship masks a repressed death-wish that aligns with killing #corroborates (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 222
• Fascist egalitarianism is repressive, not liberating #expands (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 199
• Fascist ideology reframes duty as heroic suffering stripped of economic content #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 570
• Mass killing requires ideology to overcome taboos against killing #expands (0.75) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 18