Apollo & Dionysus III: Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies

Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies is a sociological study of proto-fascist literature. Theweleit, who read over two hundred texts written by members of the paramilitary Freikorps (which would eventually become an arm of the Nazi Party), found that many of their narratives had ‘peculiar’ passages in which women were mentioned. He writes that his decision to ‘undertake an analysis of the soldier…