Imageloggia of hostile places and the question of identity In trips in the name of Basim Furat

Abstract

Bassem Furat presented his vision of the frightening and hostile place according to the dialectic of the self and the space of freedom. To bring up the dialectic of vulnerability and influence between the self and the place, just as the name of Furat was affected by the political circumstances that befell him, and left his mark on his awareness of the place and his vision of it, so the place of exile and refuge became a hated place that reveals to him the reality of the alienated and lost self in exile.Bassem Furat gives the place its historical function and connects it with his identity, as he saw in the non-Arab country a hostile, frightening and hated place that was ignorant of its language and the customs of its people. As Bassem Furat believes that the workplace, which exercises the power of exploitation, leaves a person with an oppressive and frightening feeling, and gives him anxiety of inferiority, which turns him into a hated place, a source of existential anxiety and psychological conflict.The hostile place is the opposite of the domestic place, which expresses defeat and despair, and takes on the characteristics of a patriarchal society with the hierarchy of power within it, and its arbitrariness, which seems to be a fatalistic character, representing it: prisons, places of alienation, exiles, and others, so it was against the womb place or the motherly place.Likewise, the hostile place is the same as the frightening place in which a person does not want to live, such as prisons and exiles, so these places do not feel familiarity and comfort, but rather feel hostility and hatred towards them. That is why the most tragic and unhappy places are considered the places as they are called (the secluded corner), and this is how they transform The human relationship towards every secluded place is a negative one, and among these places: the cellar - the trench - the desert - the prison - the lappet (shelter, a place of refuge). It is the place where you feel hatred, hostility, distress, and insecurity.