Abstract:

An explanation for Donald Trump’s political appeal is developed, drawing mainly on Herbert Marcuse’s study Eros and Civilization. Trump does not represent the authority of a strong father-leader so much as filial rebellion. His rebellion against the father-rule, now transmuted into an impersonal “rigged system,” permits and even encourages the explosive release of suppressed sexual and aggressive drives. However, this release does not constitute the liberation of Eros that Marcuse envisioned. Instead, Trumpism explodes suppressed sexuality within the institutions of the performance principle, gives sadistic expression to the sexual drive, conditions the abolition of sexual taboos on the creation of new objects of humiliation, and turns a collectivized sense of guilt “against those who do not belong to the whole, whose existence is its denial.” In sum, Trumpism was a betrayed revolution from the beginning; what it really represents is the political utilization of sex and aggression to reinforce social domination.

摘要：

唐纳德特朗普的政治吸引力的解释主要借鉴了赫伯特马尔库塞的研究爱欲与文明. 与其说特朗普代表的是强势父亲式领导的权威，不如说是孝顺的叛逆。他对父亲统治的反抗，现在变成了一个非个人的“操纵系统”，允许甚至鼓励被压抑的性和攻击性冲动的爆炸性释放。然而，这种释放并不构成马尔库塞所设想的爱欲的解放。取而代之的是，特朗普主义在表演原则的机构中爆发了被压抑的性行为，对性冲动进行了虐待狂的表达，以创造新的羞辱对象为条件来废除性禁忌，并使集体化的内疚感“反对那些不这样做的人”。属于整体，它的存在就是它的否定。” 总之，特朗普主义从一开始就是一场被出卖的革命；