This host-parasite relationship engenders specific paradigms for transmuting, as opposed to perceiving, external reality. It can perhaps be said to function as a kind of security lock, which snaps into a preordained position whenever the multitude of impulses from perceived reality (both “internal” and “external”) becomes too confusing or too threatening.

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By moving outward to broad horizons, to the public and the social, [the fantasies of these Freikorps men] attempt to avoid the private, the intimate, the individual, or, more precisely perhaps, the singular.

That should immediately warn us that we won’t get very far here with the “subject-object” dichotomy. I think we can agree that [these] fantasies can’t be called “objective,” but it’s just as wrong to label them “subjective.” […] [T]hey are clearly anti-individualist, antisubjective. Their language is as uninterested in the object as it is in the subject; it seems indeed to have been penned by fictive authors, by one single fictive author.

Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies, Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History, translated by Stephen Conway