The Arabic Freud (eBook)

Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

Omnia El Shakry (Autor)

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2017
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8803-0 (ISBN)

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The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thoughtIn 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn 'Arabi-al-la-shu'ur-as a translation for Sigmund Freud's concept of the unconscious. By the late 1950s, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams had been translated into Arabic for an eager Egyptian public. 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 a creative encounter of ethical engagement.Drawing on scholarly writings as well as popular literature on self-healing, El Shakry provides the first in-depth examination of psychoanalysis in Egypt and reveals how a new science of psychology-or "e;science of the soul,"e; as it came to be called-was inextricably linked to Islam and mysticism. She explores how Freudian ideas of the unconscious were crucial to the formation of modern discourses of subjectivity in areas as diverse as psychology, Islamic philosophy, and the law. 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. Mapping the points of intersection between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought, it illustrates how the Arabic Freud, like psychoanalysis itself, was elaborated across the space of human difference.

Autor

Omnia El Shakry is professor of history at the University of California, Davis. 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.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abu al-Wafa al-Ghunaymi al-Taftazani • adolescence • Aggression • Al-Ghazali • Alterity • Analogy • Anguish • arabic • attunement • Avicenna • Carl Jung • catharsis • Civilization and Its Discontents • Classical Islam • Colonialism • Complex (psychology) • Consciousness • Crime • criminal • Criminology • Decolonization • Desire • Disposition • divine discourse • divine transcendence • Egypt • Egyptian legal system • Epistemology • ethical encounters • ethical engagement • ethics • Existentialism • Feeling • Font Bureau • forensic practices • Frantz Fanon • Gender • God • Henri Bergson • Henri Wallon (psychologist) • Homosexuality • human behavior • human difference • Ideology • Incest • introspection • Irreligion • Islam • Islamic discourses • Islamic philosophy • Islamic tradition • Islamism • Jacques Derrida • Jacques Lacan • J. (newspaper) • jouissance • Julia Kristeva • Karen Horney • Kashf • Law • legal regimes • Libido • Literature • Majallat ʿIlm al-Nafs • matthew carter • Mental disorder • metapsychology • modernism • Modernity • Modern Selfhood • Moses and Monotheism • Muhammad Fathi • Muhammad Mustafa Hilmi • Murad • Mysticism • nafs • Narcissism • narrative • neurosis • Oedipus complex • On the Soul • Ontology • Paraphilia • Pedagogy • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • P. J. Conkwright • Pleasure principle (psychology) • Positivism • postwar Egypt • postwar psychoanalysis • Potentiality and actuality • Psyche (psychology) • Psychoanalysis • Psychoanalysis and religion • psychoanalytic psychology • psychoanalytic theory • psychologist • Psychology • Psychopathy • psychosexual subject • psychotherapy • Publication • Ranjana Khanna • reality principle • Religion • religious experience • religious text • Schizophrenia • Secularism • Secularization • Self-knowledge (psychology) • Sexuality • Sigmund Freud • social scientific thought • socius • Subjectivity • Sublimation (psychology) • Sufism • Tawfiq al-Hakim • temporality • The Future of an Illusion • theory • Thought • treatise • Typeface • typography • Unconscious • Writing • Yusuf • Yusuf Murad
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8803-4 / 1400888034
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8803-0 / 9781400888030