Hitler and the obscene underground
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Hitler did not create anti-Semitism but mobilized the existing obscene underground, which is why fascism is a pseudo-event, not a true revolution.
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As told 4
“Hitler just mobilized all that obscene underground that was there”1:54:03 Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 2pub. 2018-11-28 · 1:56:22
“Whatever Hitler was, he wasn't a paternal figure. He was rather a figure of an obscene dirty uncle.”
“My God I want to be like Hitler you saw the greatest movie of Chaplin the great dictator... give me at least this dignity”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
René Magritte1Creston Davis1Sophia Karpay1Arthur C. Clarke1Wiesel? (Implicit: Holocaust victims/survivors)1Fox Mulder1Jean Améry1W. G. Sebald1
alongside works
Every retelling 4
1:54:03 Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 2pub. 2018-11-28 · 1:56:22
Hitler did not create anti-Semitism but mobilized the existing obscene underground, which is why fascism is a pseudo-event, not a true revolution., illustrating Acheronta movebo
Žižek argues Hitler was not a paternal figure but an 'obscene dirty uncle,' a view Adorno noted, contrasting with the leftist idea that patriarchy is the root of fascism., illustrating obscene dirty uncle
0:18 Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the re-election of Donald Trump & his fears for Western values2024-11-28 · 33:00
Žižek references Chaplin's The Great Dictator, where Hitler demands the applause stop to restore his dignity, using it to frame his own speech as a demand for serious engagement over 'bullshit political jokes.', illustrating ideology,liberalism-political-correctness
Žižek cites a documentary interview with Hitler's secretary who described him as warm and kind, giving children cake, caring for his dog, to illustrate that what makes monsters terrible is precisely their humanity, not their inhumanity., illustrating the banality of evil,humanity of perpetrators,The Kindly Ones