ISBN:
9781137462657
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (260 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Studies in the Psychosocial
Series Statement:
Studies in the Psychosocial Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father : Between Omnipotence and Emasculation
DDC:
306.874/2095
Keywords:
Political science
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
With a foreword by Slavoj iek, 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.
Abstract:
〈p 〉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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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'
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
1 Removing the thumbtacks2 The brothers (and sisters) rebel-at last!; 3 Quo Vadis, Pater Noster?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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