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HITLER'S BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC
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I study ideology as if manifest content of a dream, seeking to comprehend
the ideology's latent content or unconscious meaning. I observe recurring
images and metaphors within ideological productions. Through systematic
analysis of these recurring images and metaphors, it is possible to reveal
the deep structure of an ideology.

Ideologies are social constructions. However, why do they exist? What is the
nature of the psychic work that they perform? I suggest that ideologies
constitute vehicles for working through deep-rooted psychological issues.
Hitler's ideology, for example, represented the medium through which Hitler
attempted to come to terms with the problem of death.

Hitler's project was to create a people so closely united-fused
together--that they could think, feel and act as a single organism. Such a
body politic would be indestructible, not only in the present but in the......

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