Boudjedra's Clinic: Colonial Madness in the Francophone Maghreb
This essay enters the scene of the psychiatric clinic and its relationship to a violent history of deculturation in French colonial Algeria through Rachid Boudjedra's 1969 novel La Répudiation. I argue that La Répudiation offers a means of critiquing recent
appropriations of psychoanalysis in postcolonial critique through its ironic instantiation of a wounded symbolic order that haunts the postcolonial sovereign state.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 January 2011
The Irish Journal of French Studies is an annual international refereed journal published by the Association des Études Françaises et Francophones d'Irlande. Articles in English, French or Irish are welcomed on any aspect of research in the area of French and Francophone culture, society, literature and thought. All articles are freely available online.
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