Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474409841 (ISBN)
Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic reorients the debates around Arabic and global modernity in relation to psychoanalysis, capitalism and universality. The study offers the first psychoanalytic reading of 19th-century works written during the nahda movement by Ahmad Faris Shidyaq (1805–87) and Butrus al-Bustani (1819–83), showing how a curious relationship was forged between language and politics – one driven by both a desire for, and anxiety about, modernity.
In analysing the abstractness of national belonging as belonging to the language, author Nadia Bou Ali considers why modern Arabic grammarians fell in love with language again and explores how language became ideated as a ‘mirror of the nation’. Bou Ali argues that the problems of language speak for the subject of the unconscious, divided by language, desire and enjoyment.
Nadia Bou Ali is Lecturer on the Civilization Studies Program at the American University in Beirut. She has published articles in Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures and Third Text and published a chapter in the collection Collecting Practices in the Arab Middle East: Alternative Visions of the Past, edited by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz (Ashgate Publications, 2011).
Introduction: The Mirror Of Language
Chapter 1: Literature as a Ruthless Excavator of Culture
Fantasy: The Tain of Modernity
The Subject and Ideology: The Ego’s Hall of Mirrors
Who is the Other of Liberalism?
The Non-Liberal Freud
Chapter 2: Love of Lugha and Lalangue
Linguisteriks
Medusa: The Image of Umma
Encyclopaedic Prolepsis and the Anxiety of Knowledge
Metathesis and Parapraxis: From Phoneme to Signifier
Chapter 3: Piercing The Bull’s Eye: The Sexual (Non-)Relation
Voiding Verbiage: On Pleasure and Pain
Undercapitalized Parasites and Antediluvian Capital
Feminization Fantasies: Am I a Man or a Woman?
Leg over Leg: The End of Procreation
Thick-Turbaned Masters and Horned Women
Chapter 4: A Liberal Psycho-Theology
Postlapsarian Nationality
DiyaNa and Dayn: True Religion and Debt
The Liberal Fantasy of a Puritan Nation
Sentiments Of Exchange: Reciprocity and Guilt History
Necromancy and the Logic of Sacrifice
Conclusion: The Abstractions of Homo Economicus: Now A Stomach, Now an Anus
A Trace of Nothing that Was There Before
Anxiety and Habit
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781474409841 / 9781474409841 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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