The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father
Subtitle: Between Omnipotence and Emasculation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 11, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781137462657
Description: 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'.
Notes: Source title: The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father: Between Omnipotence and Emasculation (Studies in the Psychosocial)