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ÖgeA review of Douzinas' reading of Judaic understanding of justice through the lenses of old testament and lacanian psychoanalysis(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2012-06-05) Akpınar, Betül ; Gözaydın, İştar ; 419091015 ; Siyaset Çalışmaları ; Political StudiesThe thesis aims to study on Judaism and Judaic understanding of justice. However, it can be said that it is an examination which searches the question of how the Jews have been influenced by the Judaic law. The conclusion derives from the research does not claim to present a response to the question as to encompass the Jews in general but rather it must be thought as an effort which tries to search the question by focusing on some special contexts and persons.The incentive of the thesis is the argument of Costas Douzinas in which it is asserted that ?to be just the Jewish must obey the law, without any reason or justification?. When I first encounter with this claim, I begin to questioning almost intuitively about the validity of this claim. By glancing on the valid ground of this claim, I realize that it bears some problems and this directs me to choose it as the topic of the thesis.Douzinas puts forth this claim in his several works and in different contexts. There appears two stopovers in his works with regards to the specific question of justice one of which stands on the ancient Israel and the other on present-day.Throughout the thesis, following the mentioned stopovers, it is argued that one can put forth this kind of argument only with regards to a specific tradition within Judaism: Rabbinic tradition. This tradition and its understanding of justice are almost completely compatible with Douzinas? argument. However, the Judaic tradition does not solely consist of Rabbinic tradition but houses others which has emerged as a reaction to Rabbinic tradition and its command-centered approach to justice. Throughout the Chapter II, this question is examined by focusing on the Hasidic tradition in addition to Rabbinic tradition. Hasidic tradition is focused on referring to the works of Martin Buber and Rabbinic tradition to Emmanuel Levinas?. These two traditions are specifically preferred to study on since Buber and Levinas are the two philosophers whom Douzinas makes reference to in this context.In accordance with his main argument, Douzinas argues in the second stopover that Judge Jephthah, as all judges in the Book of Judges (the seventh book of the Old Testament), follow absolute loyalty and faith in the God of Israel. Considering Jephthah?s personal history in the axis of his tribe, I argue otherwise. Having discussed the reason why Jephthah cannot be the follower of the justice of the God of Israel, I argue that there is nothing other than the petit objet a of psychoanalytical terminology where Douzinas identifies the justice of Jephthah and of Israeli God.It is argued here that Jephthah who is spoken by the language of law of Israel has experienced two multi-faced ?castrations? and introduced to ?lack?. This introduction to lack marks the birth of Jephthah as a ?subject of lack? and paves the way towards the ?subject of desire?. There are two castrations each bears its own bunch of (quasi) lack; and, the ?object a? (the massacre near the river of Jordan) is the only (impossible) way for the subject to try to remove its lack. However, this object a does not overlap with the justice of the God of Israel because of the reasons explained below.