The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father: Between Omnipotence and Emasculation

by Bülent Somay

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137462655
• ISBN13: 9781137462657
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"