The Connection Between Death Drive and Fascism

Death drive manifests as an inescapable repetition rooted in failure, leading individuals to seek relief through externalizing loss onto others. This dynamic allows individuals to fantasize about achieving perfect satisfaction by displacing the burden of loss, often onto marginalized groups such as immigrants. Fascism serves as a mechanism to avoid confronting one's own death drive by projecting sacrifice onto an 'other.' However, this process is ultimately futile; the issues persist and the cycle of death drive continues unabated. The act of sacrifice, deeply intertwined with pleasure in psychoanalysis, reveals how fascism embodies the attempt to evade personal sacrifice while reinforcing the desire for a false sense of completeness.