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The psychopolitics of the oriental father : between omnipotence and emasculation / Bülent Somay, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
- Title
- The psychopolitics of the oriental father : between omnipotence and emasculation / Bülent Somay, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
- Author
- Somay, Bülent, 1956-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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- Description
- xvi, 243 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father problematizes the East/West dimorphism, especially focusing on the so-called 'Modernisation' or 'Westernisation' processes in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Its main hypothesis is that 'Modernisation' and 'Westernisation' are only euphemisms for the advent of capitalism in Asiatic and African societies, which lead to fatal transformations of the cultural and political incarnatations of the Oriental Father. The end result is a transitory rebirth of Freud's Primordial Father during the construction of the nation-state, which rises again and again anytime there are grounds for a 'state of exception'.
- Series Statement
- Studies in the psychosocial series
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword; Slavoj Zizek -- Introduction -- 1. Is East East and West West? -- 2. The Function of the Father in the East and the West -- 3. The First Triangulation: Desire, Mimicry, Revolt -- 4. The Second Triangulation: Desire, Ozenti, Envy -- 5. Europeanness as Masquerade -- 6. The Primordial Father Reborn -- 7. The Invention of (Re)Covering -- Conclusion: Prolegomena for Another Modernity/Authenticity.
- ISBN
- 9781137462657
- 1137462655
- LCCN
- ^^2014026276
- OCLC
- 881859123
- SCSB-11271681
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library