Language:
French
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Les Temps Modernes
Angaben zur Quelle:
559 (1993) 45-58
Keywords:
Antisemitism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses, from a psychoanalytical perspective, the mechanism of racial hatred, focusing on the Nazi hatred of Jews. Following Freud's explanation of antisemitism, stresses the paradoxical dependence of antisemitic hatred on the body of the Jew. Mentions testimonies from Lanzmann's film "Shoah", pointing to the desire of the Nazis to transform, through extermination, the bodies of the victims into waste and "matter". Remarks on the collective aspect of racial hatred and its need to maintain the absolute alterity of the Jew. States that the Nazi hatred of the Jewish body signified the law of hatred and hatred of the law which imposes alterity as a condition for every society's existence.
Note:
Appeared also in "L'Impossible" 1, 1992.
URL:
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