The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father: Between Omnipotence and Emasculation (Studies in the Psychosocial) (Hardcover)

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The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father: Between Omnipotence and Emasculation (Studies in the Psychosocial) (Hardcover)

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With a foreword by Slavoj Zizek, 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.
Product Details ISBN: 9781137462657
ISBN-10: 1137462655
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date: November 11th, 2014
Pages: 243
Language: English
Series: Studies in the Psychosocial