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Colonial trauma : a study of the psychic and political consequences of colonial oppression in Algeria
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- Creator
- Karima Lazali
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, [2021]
- ©2021
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 250 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781509541034, 9781509541041, 1509541020, 1509545786, 1509541047, 9781509545780, 1509541039, 9781509541027
- OCLC
- on1235596394
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Psychological terror is always political.
- Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword Mariana Wikinski -- References -- Introduction : The Difficulty of Acknowledging Colonial Trauma -- The history of French colonization in Algeria: a blank space in memory and politics -- A much-needed interdisciplinary approach -- 1 Psychoanalysis and Algerian Paradoxes -- Disarray of the private and public spheres -- God's reinforcement of failing institutions -- The power of religion and the religion of power -- The literary text and the invisible staging of power
- The power of the "language, religion, and politics" (LRP) bloc as revealed by clinical psychoanalysis -- The duplicity of subjects confronting censorship from the LRP -- Abandoned citizenship and speech acts -- 2 Colonial Rupture -- The colony: the rogue child of the Enlightenment -- Colonialism's destruction of social cohesion -- A colonial republic divided, or the "duty to civilize [the] barbarians" -- 1945: a literature of refusal is born -- Nedjma: an esthetic of colonial destruction? -- Disrupting genealogical ties: the effect of "renaming" Algerians in the 1880s
- Subjective catastrophes and the disappearance of the father as symbolic reference -- Writing against anonymous filiation -- Jean El Mouhoub Amrouche: a broken voice -- 3 Colonialism Consumed by War -- 1945-1954: the necessity of war -- The impossibility of forgetting and madness, a "remedy" for disappearance -- Silencing the unforgettable mutilation of bodies -- Toulouse, 2012: the return of murder -- Constructing the "nation" -- The writer's pressing need: transform disappearance into absence -- 4 Colonialism's Devastating Effects on Post-Independence Algeria
- The mutilated body of the colonized and the hunger for reparation -- Colonial hogra and a frantic quest for legitimacy -- The "orphaning" effect of colonialism and its impact -- Further distortion of patronyms -- Divested of a name: a form of colonial murder -- Manufacturing erasure and denial under colonialism -- From colonial trauma to social trauma -- 5 Fratricide: The Dark Side of the Political Order -- The emergence of Algerian nationalist movements in the 1920s -- The War of Liberation and an impossible fraternity -- From parricide to fratricide
- When the murders between brothers are dismissed ... -- Calling on the father -- A gap in memory sets off an endless deadly battle -- 6 The Internal War of the 1990s -- Reconsidering the LRP bloc -- The tyranny and pleasure of power -- The shift of 1988 and the experience of political plurality -- An internal war of unprecedented violence -- The curse of fratricide -- The war comes home -- A strange reversal in naming -- Do freedom and terror go hand in hand? -- 7 State of Terror and State Terror -- A clinical understanding of terror -- The terrified subject's self-elimination