%0 Journal Article
%T Actors in the Spectacle of Obscenity
%A Zaleski, Marek
%J Konteksty Kultury
%V 2022
%R 10.4467/23531991KK.22.016.16250
%N Volume 19 Issue 2
%P 196-204
%K power, obscenity, writers, intellectuals
%@ 2083-7658
%D 2022
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/aktorzy-spektaklu-obscenicznosci
%X The obscene aspects of power are the guilty pleasures of the insecure “Schongeister.” They are the reason for artists and intellectuals to join the ruling camp –a reason perhaps more frequent and an incentive stronger than fear and opportunism. This underestimated background of the motivations in the spectacle of power –both under communism and today, when power comes from a democratic mandate – is analyzed here using the observations offered by contemporary psychoanalytic thought.