Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic

Explores the formation of a modern Arab identity through the conceptions of politics, morality and language in Arab thought It is the first psychoanalytic reading of Ahmad Faris Shidyaq’s Leg Over Leg (1855), one of the foundational texts of modern Arabic literatureThe book investigates the modern love for Arabic through the psychoanalytic understanding of the subject of the unconscious, one that is divided by language, desire, and enjoymentThe book is the first engagement with the failures of i