Double Dealing Homunculus, Jung, and Fascistic Proclivities

Saeed Shoja Shafti

doi:10.31579/2690-1919/196

Abstract

Fascism is a system of government merging the most extreme features of both authoritarianism and totalitarianism, and is classically considered to be at the far-right end of the political continuum, and sees racial hygiene, political violence, battle, and expansionism as means that can attain national rejuvenation. Emergence of Fascism in the last century in Europe, which had been raised up from somewhat democratic settings, has not been overlooked by intellectuals, who are in search of origins and physiognomies of Fascism. While many of researchers appreciate Fascism as a sociological phenomenon that demands psychological autopsy, there are investigators, as well, who are in search of developmental, biological, political, economical or administrative backgrounds of Fascism. In this regard, the connection between Jung and Fascism, also, was an intricate story that has been reflected again in a number of new studies. In the present article, Fascism, as a political dogma in the spectrum of authoritarianism, though not an unfamiliar administrative scheme in the globe and history, has been looked over psychosocially, along with some remarkable standpoints of some of the most known intellectuals, who were studying Fascism, Fascists, and masses in close proximity.

Highlights

Emergence of Fascism in the last century in Europe, and later sociopolitical complications and geopolitical clashes, has not been overlooked by intellectuals, who are in search of origins and physiognomies of Fascism
A) Definition of Fascism and Parallel Political Structures: Fascism is a system of government merging the most extreme features of both authoritarianism and totalitarianism, and is classically considered to be at the far-right end of the political continuum
The basis of Fascism is a mixture of ultranationalism—an exaggerated devoutness to one’s nation over all others—along with a widely held belief that the Auctores Publishing LLC – Volume 9(1)-196 www.auctoresonline.org ISSN: 2690-1919

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Introduction

Emergence of Fascism in the last century in Europe, and later sociopolitical complications and geopolitical clashes, has not been overlooked by intellectuals, who are in search of origins and physiognomies of Fascism. Seven decades ago, “The Doctors' Trial” at Nuremberg, exposed an awkward scheme of the criminal use of medicine in the arenas of public health and human research These practices, where the racial hygiene constituted one of the essential doctrines and euthanasia programs were the most noticeable result, disrupted the known bioethical principles, because the psychiatric patients were the primary sufferers [2]. The Holocaust is often placed at the beginning of bioethics, we comfort ourselves with the opinions that the persons involved in the events of the Holocaust were evil or mad and not like other physicians and scientists Those professionals were cultured and talented members of a technologically refined society who believed they were in some way behaving properly within the context of their social-political circumstances [5]. Fascism, as a political dogma in the spectrum of authoritarianism, has been looked over psychosocially, along with some remarkable standpoints of some of the most known intellectuals, who were studying Fascism, Fascists, and masses in close proximity

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