Marian Apparitions and Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Europe

During the nineteenth-century the philosophy of the Enlightenment introduced new concepts  that challenged traditional European thinking. The regicide and Terror of the French Revolution profoundly threatened the position of elites throughout Europe, and the republican ideology and secularization institutionalized by the Revolution undermined the authority of both the aristocracy and the Catholic Church. [...]

Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies vol 1, Men and Women

 
 Blame Their Mothers
by Feather Crawford Freed
 
The first chapter of Klaus Theweleit’s book Male Fantasies vol 1, entitled Men and Women, is an examination of origins and manifestations of fascism.  Theweleit argues that Freud’s concepts of psychoanalysis, such as the Oedipus complex, castration anxiety, repression and the unconscious, cannot sufficiently describe the types of fascist men that [...]