01636nam a2200229 i 4500008004100000020002800041040000800069082001700077100001900094245007900113260005800192300002400250336002600274337002800300338002900328500002000357520085900377650001401236942000801250952013301258999001501391240907s2020    ||| |||| |||| 001 0 eng d  a978-1-4744-0984-1qhbk.  aGCL  a150.195bALI10aAli, Nadia Bou10aPsychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic :bHall of Mirrors /cNadia Bou Ali.  aUnited Kingdom :bEdinburgh University Press, c2020.  a232 pages :c24 cm.  atextbrdacontent2txt  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolume bnc2rdacarrier   aIncludes index.  aPsychoanalysis 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 analyzing 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.  aPsycology  2ddc  00102ddc406150_195000000000000_ALI7094825aLPLbLPLd2024-09-07l0o150.195 ALIp15999r2024-09-07 10:12:07w2024-09-07yBK  c4081d4081