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oases where they find refuge, so they do not dry up. In other words, the desert
between god and the father is the site where politics is instituted. This could be one
of the guiding questions for psychoanalysis: to conceptualise a space between god
and the father, not only in terms of murder, of the symbolic, or the name, of the void,
and so on - all these modalities being obviously relevant - but also, and more
resolutely, in terms of the aridity in which the construction of politics takes place.
The threat that haunts men in the desert is either the “There is nothing” of nihilism
or the abundance of the totalitarian mirage (Benslama 2009: 216).
Benslama shows there is the potential for psychoanalysis to develop further a co-relation of
psychoanalytic and Islamic insights focusing on the metaphor of space, here described as
the desert.
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