Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic

Hall of Mirrors

AvNadia Bou Ali

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-02-28
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474409841

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Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

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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).

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This is by far the most sophisticated study of the making of the modern Arab subject. Focussing on the region's 19th Century 'awakening', Nadia Bou Ali shows that it was debates about the Arabic language, rather than geography, ethnicity or religion, which came to constitute the privileged site for the conceptualisation as well as problematisation of history, nation and selfhood in the Middle East.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Mirror Of Language 　Chapter 1: Literature as a Ruthless Excavator of CultureFantasy: The Tain of ModernityThe Subject and Ideology: The Ego’s Hall of MirrorsWho is the Other of Liberalism?The Non-Liberal Freud　Chapter 2: Love of Lugha and LalangueLinguisteriksMedusa: The Image of UmmaEncyclopaedic Prolepsis and the Anxiety of KnowledgeMetathesis and Parapraxis: From Phoneme to Signifier　Chapter 3: Piercing The Bull’s Eye: The Sexual (Non-)RelationVoiding Verbiage: On Pleasure and PainUndercapitalized Parasites and Antediluvian CapitalFeminization Fantasies: Am I a Man or a Woman?Leg over Leg: The End of ProcreationThick-Turbaned Masters and Horned Women　Chapter 4: A Liberal Psycho-TheologyPostlapsarian NationalityDiyaNa and Dayn: True Religion and DebtThe Liberal Fantasy of a Puritan NationSentiments Of Exchange: Reciprocity and Guilt HistoryNecromancy and the Logic of Sacrifice　Conclusion: The Abstractions of Homo Economicus: Now A Stomach, Now an AnusA Trace of Nothing that Was There Before Anxiety and Habit