100 Dictionnaire de sexologie, article ‘Fesse’, p. 167.
101 Ibid.
102 Cf. Diwān al Sabāba, p. 31.
103 Abu Nasr al-Hamadhāni, Kitāb al-sab‘iyyāt, p. 174.
104 L’Etre et le néant, p. 667; Being and Nothingness, trans. Hazel E. Barnes, London, Methuen, 1958, p. 578.
105 Ibid., p. 668; Ibid., p. 579.
106 Dictionnaire de sexologie, p. 352.
107 L’Être et le néant, pp. 471–2; Being and Nothingness, pp. 400–2.
108 Cf. Aḥmad Amīn, Qamus, p. 87.
109 Cf. Fatāwā, vol. V, p. 327ff.
110 Dix contes tunisiens pour enfants.
111 Cf. P. Saint-Yves, L’éternuement et le baillement dans la magie, l’ethnographie et le folklore médical, 1921. I have also learnt much from Claude Gaignebet’s thesis for the doctorat du 3e cycle ‘on Le Folklore obscène des enfants français.’
112 Loc. cit., p. 45.
113 Especially in the tale ‘Danse, danse mon gourdin’.
114 Cf. Paul Germain, ‘La musique et la psychanalyse’, in Revue française de Psychanalyse, 1928, no. 4.
115 Goodland’s Bibliography of Sex Rites provides full and valuable information on this point. It is a mine of historical reference.
116 Cf. E. Dermenghem, Le Culte des saints au Maghreb.
117 Aḥmad Amīn, Qamus, p. 288.
118 Cf. H. Renault, ‘Les survivances des cultes de Cybèle, Vénus et Bacchus Aissaoua, Ouled Nail, Karakous’ in Revue tunisienne, 1917, p. 150ff.
Chapter 13 In the kingdom of the mothers
1 Helene Deutsch, The Psychology of Women, London, Research Books, 1947, vol. II, p. 257.
2 One of the Prophet’s well-known hadiths: ‘The vaginal bond is an excess of existence.’
3 Cf. al-Qudūri, Mukhtaṣar, trans. Bousquet and Bercher, p. 68.
4 Ibid., note p. 5.
5 Ibid Cf. also Fatāwā, vol. I, p. 544ff.
6 Arabian Nights, trans. Lane, vol. IV, p. 298. Compare with The Thousand and One Nights, trans. Mardrus and Mathers, vol. IV, p. 531.
7 Mouloud Feraoum, ‘Le désaccord’, in Soleil, no. 6, Alger 15 juin 1951, p. 41.
8 Cf. al-Bahy al-Khūli, Al-Mar-ah, p. 133.
9 Sleim Ammar, ‘Les troubles “psycho-organiques” de la grossesse, de l’accouchement, et de l’allaitement en Tunisie’, in La Tunisie médicale. no. 1–2, janvier-février 1962. Cf. also a more recent work that reaches the same conclusions: J.-P. Fievet, A partir de l’Observation des manifestations hystériques en milieu tunisien, étude des relations entre l’hystérie et la culture, thèse pour le doctorat en médicine, Paris, 1970. See especially the second chapter.
10 J. Lacan, Écrits, p. 182.
11 Quoted by J. Berque, Les Arabes d’hier à demain, p. 163. Cf. also Nāsir al-Ḥanī’s Muḥādharāt ‘an Jamīl al Zahāwi, p. 114ff and p. 132ff. Cf. also Diwān, II, pp. 168, 241, 265.
12 Cf. Dix contes tunisiens pour enfants.
13 Loc. cit., p. 43.
14 ‘Entretiens avec Rachid Boujedra’, in Le Monde, supplément littéraire 24 janvier 1970.
15 H. Bourguiba, speech of 13 August 1965.
16 C. G. Jung, ‘The relations between the ego and the unconscious’, Collected Works, vol. 7, tr. R. F. C. Hull, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953, p. 195.
17 Ibid., p. 196.
18 Ghālī Shukrī, Azmat al-jins, p. 69.
19 Najib Maḥfūdh, Baina al-qaṣrain, pp. 49, 353, 387; Qasr al-shauq, pp. 402–5; Al-Sukkariyya, pp. 139–362.
20 C. G. Jung, op. cit., p. 196.
21 The Thousand and One Nights, vol. II, p. 554ff.
22 Ibid., vol. II, p. 568.
23 C. G. Jung, op. cit., p. 196.
24 Roger Bastide, Sociologie et psychanalyse, p. 277.
25 Al-Majānī al-ḥaditha, vol. III, p. 126. Cf. Elyas Selim al-Ḥāwi, Ibn Rūmi, an excellent analysis of Ibn Rūmi’s vision of nature, p. 33ff.
Conclusion
1 J. Berque, Les Arabes d’hier à demain, p. 155.
2 Ibid. Cf. also Le Maghreb entre deux guerres.
3 There is a rich bibliography on this subject. Reference might be made to: Durriyya Shafiq, al mar-at al misriya, Cairo, 1955; Ibrahim Abdallah Māhī, Mushkilat almar-a fil bilād al ‘arabiyya, Baghdad, 1957; Ghālī Shukrī, Azmat al jins fil qiṣṣat-al ‘arabī, Beirut, 1962.
4 Laila Ba‘alabakki, Anā Aḥyā, 1st ed. Beirut, 1950. I quote from the second edition of 1963.
5 Ibid., p. 288.
6 Faiza, no. 56, mars-avril 1956.
7 La Presse de Tunisie, 27 juillet 1970.
8 La Presse de Tunisie, 19 septembre 1971.
9 La Presse de Tunisie, 23 avril 1967.
10 La Presse de Tunisie, 16 aout 1968.
11 Faiza, no. 36, octobre-novembre 1963.
12 On the situation of Tunisian women in the years prior to the Second World War one might consult with profit the ‘reportage’ by Lucie-Paule Marguerite, Les Tunisiennes, published in 1937 in Paris, by Editions Denoël. Cf. also the study by Henri de Montety, Le Mariage musulman en Tunisie, published in Tunis, SAPI, 1941.
13 Leila. Cf. L.-P. Marguerite, op. cit., pp. 30–1.
14 Sleim Ammar and Ezzedine Mbarek, ‘L’hystérie chez la jeune fille et la femme tunisienne’, in La Tunisie médicate, no. 4, juillet-avril 1961, p. 7.
15 Cf. the translation given by Aziz Lahbabi, Florilège poétique arabe et berbère, p. 74.
16 Ghālī Shukrī, Azmat al-Jins, p. 263.
17 Laila Ba‘alabakki, Al-aīliha al-mamsūkha, Beirut, 1966, p. 47.
18 Laila Ba‘alabakki, Ana Aḥyā, p. 312.
19 Ibid., p. 276.
20 Ibid., p. 296 (a‘ṭī idhan anā aḥya).
21 Dictionnaire de sexologie, Supplément, pp. 354–5.
22 Ghālī Shukrī, op. cit., p. 114.
23 Bain al-qasrain, p. 49.
24 Ibid., p. 288.
25 Quạsr al-shauq, pp. 396–7.
26 Dictionnaire de sexologie, p. 150.
27 Henry Winthrop, ‘L’avenir de la révolution sexuelle’, in Diogène, no. 70, avril-juin 1970, p. 90.
28 J. Berque, Les Arabes d’hier à demain, chap. 1.
29 G. Bachelard, La Poétique de l’espace, p. 200; Poetics of Space, tr. Maria Jolas, Boston, Beacon Press, 1964, p. 222.
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