Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Anatomy of Racism
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1990) 171-182
Keywords:
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand,
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
Abstract:
Examines the function of the Jew in Céline's discourse, calling attention to two common features that structure the fluctuations in his pamphlets: rage against the Symbolic (represented by religious, parareligious, and moral establishments - e.g. the Church, freemasonry, communist ideology, etc.) which he sees as based on Jewish monotheism; and his attempt to substitute another law in place of the constraining and frustrating symbolic one, a law based on mystical positivity. The latter would be embodied in the family, the nation, the race, and the body. The novelist Céline had deeply explored the abomination that such entities are prey to, but the pamphleteer Céline wanted them. The desire for the One (thinking, ethical, or legislative Unity) as well as for the Other (the Jouissance of primary narcissism's immanence) produces a symptom of destructive hatred directed against both. "The image of the Jew will concentrate negated love become hatred for Mastery on the one hand, and on the other and jointly, desire for what mastery cuts out: weakness, the joying substance, sex tinged with femininity and death". Thus, antisemitism is a kind of parareligious formation, relegating the threatening Jew (who is both One and the Other, representing the Law and Jouissance) to a place of abjection.
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