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008			240907s2020 ||| |||| |||| 001 0 eng d
020			_a978-1-4744-0984-1 _qhbk.
040			_aGCL
082			_a150.195 _bALI
100	1	0	_aAli, Nadia Bou
245	1	0	_aPsychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic : _bHall of Mirrors / _cNadia Bou Ali.
260			_aUnited Kingdom : _bEdinburgh University Press, _c2020.
300			_a232 pages : _c24 cm.
336			_atext _brdacontent _2txt
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_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.
650			_aPsycology
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