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UNINA9910463878503321 |
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Melzer Sara E |
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Colonizer or colonized [[electronic resource] ] : the hidden stories of early modern French culture / / Sara E. Melzer |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 |
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1-283-89108-5 |
0-8122-0518-9 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French |
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France Civilization |
France Civilization Philosophy |
France Civilization Classical influences |
France Colonies America |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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pt. I. France's colonial relation to the ancient world -- pt. II. France's colonial relation to the new world -- pt. III. Weaving the two colonial stories together : escaping barbarism. |
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Colonizer or Colonized introduces two colonial stories into the heart of France's literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France's conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an "us," they also resented the Ancients as an imperial "them," haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had colonized their ancestors, the Gauls. This memory put the elite on the defensive-defending against the legacy of this colonized past and the fear that they were the barbarian other. The second story mirrored the first. Just as the Romans had colonized the Gauls, France would colonize the New World, becoming the "New Rome" by creating a "New France." Borrowing the Roman strategy, the French Church and State developed an assimilationist stance towards the Amerindian "barbarian." This policy provided a foundation for what would become the nation's most |
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basic stance towards the other. However, this version of assimilation, unlike its subsequent ones, encouraged the colonized and the colonizer to engage in close forms of contact, such as mixed marriages and communities.This book weaves these two different stories together in a triangulated dynamic. It asks the Ancients to step aside to include the New World other into a larger narrative in which elite France carved out their nation's emerging cultural identity in relation to both the New World and the Ancient World. |
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UNINA9910462251703321 |
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Autore |
Homayounpour Gohar <1977-> |
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Doing psychoanalysis in Tehran [[electronic resource] /] / Gohar Homayounpour ; foreword by Abbas Kiarostami |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2012 |
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1-283-59317-3 |
9786613905628 |
0-262-30598-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (175 p.) |
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Psychoanalysis - Iran - Tehran |
Islam and psychoanalysis - Iran - Tehran |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Foreword; Preface: Is Psychoanalysis Possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran?; Upon Arriving in Tehran; A Few Years after Returning to Tehran |
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"Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain. Twenty years after leaving her country, Homayounpour, an Iranian, Western-trained psychoanalyst, returns to Tehran to establish a psychoanalytic practice. When an American colleague exclaims, 'I do |
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not think that Iranians can free-associate!' Homayounpour responds that in her opinion Iranians do nothing but. Iranian culture, she says, revolves around stories. Why wouldn't Freud's methods work, given Iranians' need to talk? Thus begins a fascinating narrative of interlocking stories that resembles--more than a little--a psychoanalytic session. Homayounpour recounts the pleasure and pain of returning to her motherland, her passion for the work of Milan Kundera, her complex relationship with Kundera's Iranian translator (her father), and her own and other Iranians' anxieties of influence and disobedience. Woven throughout the narrative are glimpses of her sometimes frustrating, always candid sessions with patients. Ms. N, a famous artist, dreams of abandonment and sits in the analyst's chair rather than on the analysand's couch; a young chador-clad woman expresses shame because she has lost her virginity; an eloquently suicidal young man cannot kill himself. As a psychoanalyst, Homayounpour knows that behind every story told is another story that remains untold. Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran connects the stories, spoken and unspoken, that ordinary Iranians tell about their lives before their hour is up."--Jacket. |
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