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The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father

Between Omnipotence and Emasculation

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  • © 2014

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Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)

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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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  • Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

    Bülent Somay

About the author

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.

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