There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. (Walter Benjamin, Illuminations 256)

In this essay I will take Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection as a starting-point to explore the relationship of the French nation to German fascism in the twentieth century - a relationship long marked by an othering of fascism as foreign or non-French. To investigate this relationship, I will specifically analyze the discussion of fascism and the phobic abjection of the feminized (female or homosexual) other in the early work of France's leading philosopher of the twentieth century, Jean-Paul Sartre. In that Sartre's work gives expression to the extreme fear ...

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