- Frauen, Fluten, Körper, Geschichte, 1977.
- Männerkörper. Zur Psychoanalyse des Weißen Terrors, 1978.
A change of scene.
After the war. A man and woman in a lecture hall:
I'm sitting next to
her at the lecture. She is bashful. Assiduously,
she applies herself
to noting the fact that the home of the
original Germanic tribes was
probably on the lower Danube, or
somewhere or other. How should I
know? I hear her breathing
quicken, feel the warmth of her body, and
smell the fresh scent
of her hair. Her hand rests carelessly almost
at my side. Long,
narrow, and white as freshly fallen snow.'
Under
the man's gaze, the woman is transformed into something cold
and
dead. The man is Michael, in Goebbels' post-World War I novel of
the
same name, who gazes at the hand of his beloved Herta Hoik. Like
so many
women in these novels, she has the ability to evaporate as
the story
progresses.*
Relationships with women are dissolved and
transformed into new male
attitudes, into political stances,
revelations of the true path, etc. As the
woman fades out of sight,
the contours of the male sharpen; that is the way
in which the
fascist mode of writing often proceeds. It could almost be said
that
the raw material for the man's "transformation" is the
sexually
untouched, dissolving body of the woman he is with.
To
soldiers returning from battle, women seem to have lost their
reality.
Lettow-Vorbeck (Africanus) stops over in Italy on his
journey home. He
visits a museum-
MALE FANTASIES Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History 1987
Male Fantasies. Volume 2: Male Bodies,
Psychoanalyzing the White Terror. 1989
Sven Reichardt, Klaus Theweleits „Männerphantasien“ – ein Erfolgsbuch der 1970er-Jahre, in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Online-Ausgabe, 3 (2006) H. 3,
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