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The psychopolitics of the oriental father : between omnipotence and emasculation / Bülent Somay, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

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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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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
  • Fathers > Family relationships > Asia
  • Fathers > Asia
  • Parent and child > Asia
  • Fathers > Asia > Family relationships
  • Fathers > Family relationships
  • Fathers
  • Parent and child
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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