Eros and Trumpism: A Marcusean Interpretation

IF 0.1 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1353/aim.2022.0038

C. Goldberg

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Abstract

Abstract:An explanation for Donald Trump’s political appeal is developed, drawing mainly on Herbert Marcuse’s study Eros and Civilization. Trump does not represent the authority of a strong father-leader so much as filial rebellion. His rebellion against the father-rule, now transmuted into an impersonal “rigged system,” permits and even encourages the explosive release of suppressed sexual and aggressive drives. However, this release does not constitute the liberation of Eros that Marcuse envisioned. Instead, Trumpism explodes suppressed sexuality within the institutions of the performance principle, gives sadistic expression to the sexual drive, conditions the abolition of sexual taboos on the creation of new objects of humiliation, and turns a collectivized sense of guilt “against those who do not belong to the whole, whose existence is its denial.” In sum, Trumpism was a betrayed revolution from the beginning; what it really represents is the political utilization of sex and aggression to reinforce social domination.

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厄洛斯与特朗普主义：马尔库塞解读

摘要：本文主要借鉴马尔库塞的《情色与文明》一书，对唐纳德·特朗普的政治诉求进行了阐释。与其说特朗普代表了一个强大的父亲领袖的权威，不如说他代表了孝顺的反叛。他对父亲统治的反抗，现在变成了一个非个人的“操纵系统”，允许甚至鼓励被压抑的性冲动和攻击性冲动的爆炸性释放。然而，这次释放并不构成马尔库塞所设想的厄洛斯的解放。相反，特朗普主义在表演原则的体制内引爆了被压抑的性行为，对性冲动进行了虐待狂式的表达，将性禁忌的废除置于创造新的羞辱对象的条件之上，并将集体化的负罪感转化为“针对那些不属于整体的人，他们的存在就是对整体的否认”，特朗普主义从一开始就是一场被背叛的革命；它真正代表的是政治上利用性和侵略来强化社会统治。

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