The Problem of Eros in Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sand Child
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Abstract
Your story is terrifying. You yourself are the secret that possesses me. I can free myself of it only by pressing on to the story's very end. But what will I find then? You are not the type to end a story. You're more the type to leave it open, in order to make it an endless tale. 1 These words, spoken by the lover of the unambiguously female Zahra of Ben Jelloun's The Sacred Night, bring back the central issue of The Sand Child—the impossibility of ending the plural narrations that surround the protagonist Ahmed/Zahra. 2 Ahmed/Zahra, whose doubled naming reflects both the span of the alphabet and the impossibility of a split androgyne, is a woman who has been gendered male in order to fulfill the perverse desire of a patriarch to beget a son. As such, he/she inhabits a narrative space that reflects the violent conflict between the containment of paternal signification and the disruption of the body. Given Ben Jelloun's sustained interest in psychoanalysis and the theories of Freud, it comes as no surprise that The Sand Child explores the issue of gendered subjectivity through a primarily Freudian paradigm. The novel negotiates the complex question of Woman, a question that was of central importance to
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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