“Sewing and Tear, Keep and Throw”. Visions of the Enemy and Psychical Strategies of Survival in the Blue Division

• Main Author: David Alegre Lorenz
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2012-12-01
• Series: Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea
• Subjects: Fascismo; violencia fascista; alteridad; análisis del lenguaje; Segunda Guerra Mundial.
• Online Access: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CHCO/article/view/40060

This article analyzes the fears and projections of the Spanish fascist soldier in the Blue Division, all through the analysis of language from a psychoanalytic view. In some way, the aim is to understand how the enemy is seen and how is produced the process of contempt toward the enemy that made possible the deployment of an extreme brutality in combat. In this sense, we’ll see an absolute correspondence among the Russian people (civilians and soldiers), Communism, Judaism and the landscape. So much so that the fascist soldier lives under a permanent feeling of siege. At last, we can see how the fascist face this threat at the same time that he avoids it running away in a violent drive understood as act of faith.