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The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father Between Omnipotence and Emasculation
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Studies in the Psychosocial
The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father
Between Omnipotence and Emasculation
B. Somay
Social Science / Sociology / General
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.
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.
| Publication Date: | 01 January 2014 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN-13: | 9781349499090 |
| Format: | Paperback / softback |
| Page Count: | 243 |