Kristeva's Severed Head in Iraq
Antoon’s The Corpse Washer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6154637 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frances L Restuccia (Boston College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 56-68 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2155-1162 • E-ISSN: 2155-1162 |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/jffp.2018.858 |
| OpenAlex | W2904310370 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
This paper offers a Kristevan reading of Antoon's The Corpse Washer. Although this text focuses specifically on Arab/Muslim culture, which cannot be translated into a racial category, this reading is meant to show the pertinence of Kristevan psychoanalytic theory in a non-Western context. One might go about linking such psychoanalytic work on non-Western writing to “race” in two ways. Insofar as The Corpse Washer demonstrates the validity of Kristevan psychoanalytic theory for non-Western art/artists, it implies the universality of that theory, despite ethnicity, race, religion, etc. Or if we presuppose the universality of Kristevan psychoanalytic theory, we may think of such work as testing the assumption that psychoanalysis can traverse all such culturally constructed boundaries
Epistemology · Linguistics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Reading (process · Sociology · Universality (dynamical systems · Washer · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |