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Psychoanalysis and Anamnesis in the National Allegory of Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 48, Number 4, Winter 2008
- pp. 69-80
- 10.1353/esp.0.0039
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This essay explores Nawal El Saadawi’s and Assia Djebar’s use of the psychoanalytical concept of anamnesis, especially as regards the writing of their stories and those of other women in relation to the story of the nation and its culture.