The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691174792 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the Back Cover"In a world in which Islam is all too often thought to be incompatible with a ‘secular’ Western thought system like psychoanalysis, The Arabic Freud demonstratesspectacularlythat nothing could be further from the truth. At issue is not just the question of the nafs as psyche, but of the psyche as soul."--Stefania Pandolfo, University of California, Berkeley"A much-needed addition to modern Arab intellectual history. By returning to us the Egyptian translations of the unconscious as divine unknowing and the drive as ethical self-transformation, Omnia El Shakry brings something new and far-reaching to the way we think now. El Shakry rebuts the binary opposition between a Western, liberating, and modern psychoanalysis and a local, traditional, and cons
She is the author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt and the editor of Gender and Sexuality in Islam. Omnia El Shakry is professor of history at the University of California, Davis.
Founding figures of Egyptian psychoanalysis, she shows, debated the temporality of the psyche, mystical states, the sexual drive, and the Oedipus complex, while offering startling insights into the nature of psychic life, ethics, and eros.This provocative and insightful book invites us to rethink the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion in the modern era. In The Arabic Freud, Omnia El Shakry challenges the notion of a strict divide between psychoanalysis and Islam by tracing how postwar thinkers in Egypt blended psychoanalytic theories with concepts from classical Islamic thought in