Somay The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father

Between Omnipotence and Emasculation
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-46266-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in the Psychosocial

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Somay, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Slavoj Žižek 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, Özenti, Envy 5. Europeanness as Masquerade 6. The Primordial Father Reborn 7. The Invention of (Re)Covering Conclusion: Prolegomena for Another Modernity/Authenticity

Über Autor(innen)

Bülent Somay teaches Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. He has written extensively on the cross-connections of Psychoanalysis, Literature and Popular Culture. His publications include a book on modern utopian fiction in English, The View from the Masthead.