Ideological Fantasy

This paper analyzes the discursive contestation through which 'the subject'-in this case, post-colonial Indonesiais constructed as a means of understanding the role of ideological fantasy in subject construction. Data were selected purposively from several novels and analyzed using a discourse approach. This paper finds that, within the analyzed texts, colonial (modern) discourses intersect and are contested with local religion and values. An overlap may thus be identified in the ideological fantasy of Indonesia's postcolonial subjects.

In this paper, an analysis of narratives about the archive and archival material in the public space uncovers the political and ideological layer connected to identity politics present in the archive, which is in opposition to the seemingly neutral position of the archive as an institution. The focus is on the production of emotions through these narratives, which participate in the collective identification process and which antagonize the social field. This paper examines how UDBA files, as objects of different narratives in public and political spaces, participate in (re)constructing Croatian national identity (as a collective body) and in creating constitutive norms of memory and history by producing emotions (pain, suffering, love, hate). Emotions are used to give value to the identification markers of "Yugoslavism" and "Croatism", thus establishing them as a binary opposition and (re)articulating the Other (the "enemy") as a "Yugoslav" or a "Commie". The analysis shows how in this process, various ideological fantasies that structure social reality are also constructed.

Although vernacular architecture is one of the most popular fields of discourse production in Turkey, no practice of literature exists in this field that is as productive and varied. Thus, this paper primarily intends to analyze the writings of a group of researchers regarded to be the representatives of the early period of this field, through a set of arising questions. An overview of the vernacular discourse which is dealt with in the first part of the article demonstratres that different writers have similar discourses recurring over the years. These discourses, and their linguistic and theoretical characteristics, are defined as “essentialism” oriented in the article, for they intend to draw boundaries particularly by assigning appellations for the houses, identify the main components, and determine origins. The essentialism oriented vernacular discourses create the perception that traditional houses have specific values and associate the societal values of "true" and "real" with these houses. However, those who attach certain values to structures and societies are obviously the people themselves who generate these discourses. To shed light onto the ideological nature of essentialism oriented vernacular discourses, the second part of the article analyzes the Turkish discourse on vernacular through the “unspoken” rather than the already spoken. To this end, it questions the subconscious of the vernacular rather than reads it for direct meaning. With this psychoanalytical reading, it aims to deal with both the spoken and unspoken aspects of Turkish vernacular discourse.