Under the shade of escalating violence and fundamentalism, our epoch's diffused aura of liberalism supposedly tolerates difference, by exorcising the evil phantasms of totalitarianism, in favor of a liberal and humane post-modern order. Consequently, behind contemporary versions of evil, one demonizes modern fascists, totalitarian threats, and Hitlers. As if not obscure enough, fascist evil has been equivocally linked with perversion.

The objective of the Antonio Vadolas's criticism that goes through psychoanalysis, without, however, exempting it from this criticism, is to reveal...