The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father [electronic resource] : Between Omnipotence and Emasculation /
Somay, B.author.
With a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, this book explores the Father Function in the East in the process of 'Modernisation', arguing that 'Modernisation' and 'Westernisation' are 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.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword: If Praying and Shopping Is Not Enough, Read This Book!; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ł'Orient n'existe pas; 1 Psycho-cultural analysis; 2 Psychoanalysis goes East; 3 The West as a failed utopia; 4 The Orient through the looking glass; 1 Is East East and West West?; 1 Differences: essential and fundamental; 2 Not only, but also . . .; 3 Problematisation, signification, performance: Foucault, Lacan, Butler; 2 The Function of the Father in the East and the West; 1 The historical hypothesis: From difference to domination
2 The unsatiating banquet: The snatched jouissance of the West3 The case of the devoured father: Can jouissance be shared?; 4 The case of the father who refuses to die: 'Thou Shalt Kill Thy Sibling!'; 3 The First Triangulation: Desire, Mimicry, Revolt; 1 The Oriental intellectual at the margin; 2 The construction of the Oriental Transvestite; 3 The infernal triangulation of Oriental desire; 4 The desire of the non-colonised Orient; 4 The Second Triangulation: Desire, Özenti, Envy; 1 Traduttore traditore: Towards a culture of translation; 2 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Fatherless Child'
3 From romantic conceit to tragic hubris5 Europeanness as Masquerade; 1 The fez as a universal equaliser; 2 Repossessing the phallus; 3 'This head-covering is called "hat" '; 6 The Primordial Father Reborn; 1 The speech that created a Father for the nation; 2 Masculine fantasy unleashed; 3 Instead of the original; 4 Sometimes a hat is not just a hat; 7 The Invention of (Re)Covering; 1 'The Women Men Don't See'; 2 Nostalgia without a past, copy without an original; 3 Modernising the cover, covering the modern; Conclusion: Prolegomena for Another Modernity/Authenticity
1 Removing the thumbtacks2 The brothers (and sisters) rebel-at last!; 3 Quo Vadis, Pater Noster?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, this book explores the Father Function in the East in the process of 'Modernisation', arguing that 'Modernisation' and 'Westernisation' are 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.
Political sociology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Europe—Politics and government.
Middle East—Politics and government.
Psychoanalysis.
Political science.
Political Sociology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
European Politics.
Middle Eastern Politics.
Psychoanalysis.
Political Science.