Barbarism, toxic masculinity and ‘The final days of the Obscene Father’, the collapse of international law and moral boundaries.

In my prospective novel: EMASCULATION: ALBION’s CURE, I describe the rise of the SlavJuros. The zombie ‘miracles’ that emerge from the dehumanized psyches of the modern male, toxic masculine sexuality incapable of a ‘viable temperate relationship with a woman.’

The SlavJuros are a miracle (in Santner’s sense) because they are the result of a deanimation of the undead that exposes and destabilizes the creature and its ‘drive’, (as opposed to animals with instincts) with a radical dehumanization.

As western pseudo democratic norms visibly collapse and shatter in front of our eyes, many, from positions of relative comfort and stability, are hopelessly disengaged bystanders, more or less rendered anxious but, mostly, really, turning a blind eye. 

Today’s rise of the Obscene and the breakdown of law and order and of democracy (Israel, UK, USA, etc) is, I suggest,  having a polymorphic impact on the human psyche – and alongside resistance and compassion we also see unleashed a monstrous racist ‘othering’, the rise of the far right stormtroopers in the various religiose and  völkisch apparitions of nationalism and fascisms. The collective human psyche is being destabilized by the breakdown of law and order and by the rise of despots (with seemingly limitless power and above any law). This destabilization wreaks most harm in the form of ‘toxic masculinity’: the Obscene Father wannabe control freaks, or, less dramatically, in the form of the dehumanized automaton followers, zombies, prepared to, quite unemotionally, but ruthlessly rampage, even if only on social media platforms), to regurgitate racist bile, to ensure the continued destruction of the ‘other’, the ‘other’ that provides a necessary enemy to slake the unquenchable thirst of the Obscene Father that commands us, through its client media, to “Enjoy! without limit”. 

The psyche of toxic masculine sexuality – as in film noir (q.v. Zizek), in modernity, is being cultivated by the overt manifestation of the Obscene Father(s) in full public view, in full rein, destabilizes the symbolic father function, and renders masculine sexuality oppressive and power hungry – and makes any viable temperate relation with woman impossible. In fact woman becomes feared, a phobic object, the Thing, the embodiment of the unbearable emptiness within masculine sexuality, the sexual absence sensed as loss. This psyche of modern masculine sexuality may then be ripe for a kind of  ‘psychotic’ response to ‘Other jouissance’ (the enjoyment of the subject by the Big Other as Obscene Father) that forecloses access to an imaginary reality altogether, (Selivanov. Trump, Israel, Neoliberal Capitalism) by becoming radically deanimated switching  toxic masculine sexuality  into the de-sexualised non-libidinal undead zombie of the soldier with a totalitarian psyche – a monster drone with a rapacious and unquenchable appetite for destruction of the ‘other’ – (however the ‘other’ is identified by the Big Other). This totalitarian psychotisisation in thrall to fascism and without imagination is itself a kind of miracle, but one that opens a door to horror.