![]() ![]() To be sure, Islamism is not synonymous with the Muslim faith. Three decades later, Middle Eastern political scholars began drawing parallels between fascism and Islamism (Halpern 1963, Rodinson 1979, Arjomand 1984, Herf 2010). In 1933 psychoanalyst Reich set the foundation stone in the contentious study of fascism and religion in the wake of fascist ideology in Europe. Sex negating ideologies and authoritarian governments thus mutually reinforce each other. In this vein, he reasons that the “sexual perversion” mirrored in patriarchal religions also secures political totalitarianism (Reich 1947, 2). ![]() The psychoanalyst and sex-economist Wilhelm Reich envisions “the formation of the authoritarian structure place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety” (1947, 2, 69). Psychological constraints on sexual expression for all sexes and age groups allow and guard authoritarian ideologies across history. Sex negation in patriarchies is not only the point of origin for authoritarian ideologies but also their breaking point. ![]()
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