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For authoritarian [[regime]] to [[exist]], however totalitarian it may be, the [[active]] [[participation]] and support of a population is required, toerwise the regime will very quickly collapse.
And yet, why would any population support an overtly repressive regime?
This is where the ambiugity of the [[father]] and what [[Lacan|LAcan ]] calls the superegoic imperative to [[Enjoy]] comes in.
When a [[subject]] [[identifies]] with a [[leader]]/father figur,e he or she identifies witha [[position]] of [[Oedipal]] [[power]] and [[authority]].
At the same time, however, [[The Subject|the subject ]] identifies with that curel and licentious father of the [[primal]] [[horde]].
If we do not have access to [[pleasure]] and [[enjoyment]], we assume that it is because someone else has usurped our position and taken it from us.
Hence the inflated iamges of power and potency ascribed to other 'minority' groups.
The efficacy of the figure of the 'Jew' relies on the assumption of a certain [[surplus]] - that Jews possess somthing that we do not and therefore they ahve access to pleasures that we are denied.
For racism and anti-Semtiism to function psychically an [[impossible]], unfathomable nejoyment, allegedly stolen from us, msut be attributed to the other.
Paradoixcally, argues Zizek, what 'holds together' a given [[community]] is "not so much [[identification]] with the [[public]] or [[Symbolic law|symbolic Law ]] that regulates the communty's 'normal' everyday life, but rather ''identification with a specific [[form]] of [[transgression]] of the Law, of the Law's suspension'' (in [[psychoanalytic]] [[terms]], with a specific form of ''enjoyment'').<ref>1994:55</ref>
More specifically, what holds communitites together is the [[attribution]] of ''excessive'' enjoyment to other or [[alien]] groups; for [[instance]], the sterotypical [[fantasy]] of seuxal potency associated with blakc men.
Psychoanalysis argues that the inehrent ambiguity of these psychic structrues - the [[SuperEgo|superego]], the father and fantasy - is a necessary and constituive part of all social roders and essential to their proper funcitoning.
If the threat is not actually, empirically, there then it will have to be invented, just as Nazi ideology had to [[construct]] the '[[conceptual]] Jew' in order to justify its own repressive regime.
The poitn is that the Jews is not hte [[cause]] of that ideology, but rather something that is constitued in its effects, that it to say, the Jew is posited retrosepctively as the condition of possibility for the fascist regime.
