"haunting presence: Türkiye'de hakim ulus ideolojisi ve devrimci solun bir analizi

This study has a double objective, one theoretical and one historical: The theoretical objective is to present a formal and generic theory of social antagonism and revolutionary act informed by the dialectical materialist framework represented by names like Žižek, Zupančič, and Badiou that draws from German Idealism, Marxism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis, which enables one to conceptualize different class structures such as capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy without reducing or dismissing any of them. Arguing that society is constructed not purely symbolically but through the organization of social jouissance, this dissensus-based framework is positioned as a critical alternative to the consensus-based explanations of structural inequalities (e.g., racial contract theories and subaltern studies). The historical objective, on the other hand, is to illustrate the theoretical argument by presenting a structural explanation for the continuity of the ruling nation ideology from the Ottoman millet system onwards. Especially focusing on left organizations, this work examines the superegoical character and the symptomatic blindness of the masculine-hegemonic logic of the ruling nation (millet-i hakime) towards the colonial issue, and it demonstrates the feminine logic of the relationship between the symptomal element and the revolutionary subject through two examples of the emergence of the revolutionary subject from the symptomal position of the colonial order, first from the Armenian nation, then from the Kurdish nation.