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NAZI PSYCHOANALYSIS V O L U M E I I NAZI PSYCHOANALYSIS V O L U M E I Only Psychoanalysis Won the War V O L U M E I I Crypto-Fetishism V O L U M E I I I Psy Fi NAZI PSYCHOANALYSIS V O L U M E I I Crypto-Fetishism Laurence A. Rickels F O R E W O R D B Y B E N J A M I N B E N N E T T University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London Nancy Barton grants permission to the University of Minnesota Press for the use of the image “Untitled—Testing” in Nazi Psychoanalysis. Every effort was made to obtain permission to reproduce the illustrations in this book. If any proper acknowledgment has not been included here, we encourage copyright holders to notify the publisher. Copyright 2002 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu A Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-8166-3698-2 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8166-3699-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Foreword BENJAMIN BENNETT ix Achtung A PREFACE TO NAZI PSYCHOANALYSIS xvii Part Too Time to Remember 3 Giving Up Which Ghost? 5 Keeping Up 9 Take Off 13 Fetish Goes to War 19 Halfway 22 Ghost Appearances 31 The Heydays of Radarr 36 Another Allied Example 40 One Four Five Beachwood Drive 43 Cyber-Lacan 60 French Dressing 63 The Games 65 Trippy 71 On Turing 74 Reopener Air Head 79 Into Africa 82 1945: There’s Still a Place for Psychoanalysis 88 1945 Allied-Style 90 Taking Apart Air Defense Mechanisms 95 Bomber Room 100 Little Richard 107 Emergency Island 112 Bloody Freud 124 Bion the Pleasure Principle 127 The Father’s Daughter 131 Breaking Up and Making Up 138 Project Group Identification 145 In My Side 147 Objection Relations 150 There Was No Time like the Present 154 Kinder-Reich 157 Soldierhood 169 Let Me Introduce You 185 Secret Wartime Report 195 Heil Homosexuality 198 Schultz Complex 206 Council of Marriage 211 Mohr Therapy 214 Hands-on Reproach 219 The Women 227 Colonization 233 Taking Part Buffoonery 237 Back in the U.S. of A. 240 Boring 243 Consensual Text 247 Getting to Know You 253 Furer 256 A Couple of Fetishes 260 Parting Mummy’s the Word 265 Hi Ya Heidegger 272 Being in Therapy 278 The 30 Percent Reich 283 Hey Sullivan Man 287 Drama Psycho 293 Dichten Denken Tanken 298 Only One Thing Missing 306 References 315 Filmography 327 Index 329 This page intentionally left blank Foreword B E N J A M I N B E N N E T T “If God had intended us to fly...,” the saying goes, or at least used to go. To be sure, the scope of Laurence A. Rickels’s Crypto-Fetishism,the second volume of Nazi Psychoanalysis, extends well beyond the question of how human beings might be made suitable for flying. Especially the idea of fetishism—in the form of a “techno-mourning...that mourns even over those merely integrative moments in works of mourning and substitution”— both receives and reveals unexpected significance. As techno-mourning, fetishism isn’t about the identifiable or identified-with body. For one, it’s not about couples. And it’s not about losing, just because you lost. It is about winning, like a winner and not like a victim; it’s about some power of emer- gency propulsion that gets us past the totalization and paralysis of loss to the wide open and outer spacing of what in a more couplified era or moment of mourning could only be seen as closed and enclosing delusional states that were the determining limit and dead end of failed mourning. Radical transformation is the matter here, something like a turning of the world inside out, or perhaps rather a disintegration of the whole “couple” inside/outside in a new space of “greater psychoanalysis” where the inter- nal (intrapsychic) and external (technological, gadget-loving) aspects of fetishism are no longer strictly distinguishable. And yet the question of flying is not merely a metaphor in this context. There is, in fact, no longer any such thing as a “mere” metaphor in the neither internal nor external (nor even spatial) space that opens between our world wars, a space we traverse, if at all, on wings no god ever dreamed of. We can gain perspec- tive on this situation, I think, by first stepping back a quarter millennium or so. To the extent that a main point exists, the main point of Johann Georg Hamann’sAesthetics in a Nutshell(1762) is probably that scripture and his- tory, and indeed nature itself, are all versions of a single text, a single di- vine writing, and that the purport of that writing depends radically on how the reader approaches it, which in turn never fails to involve the ques- tion of who the reader really is. These last two ideas are set forth with per- fect clarity, toward the end of Hamann’s text, in a pair of quotations, the IX

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