This special issue stages an encounter between psychoanalysis and
the Middle East by reopening the psychoanalytic canon to consider
key concepts through unexpected interlocutors, religious
traditions, and intellectual formations. This includes bringing
Islamic philosophical concepts of the Cloud to bear on conceptions
of causality and après coup; and thinking from the point of view
of the Last Judgment in dialogue with the therapeutic work of a
Moroccan imam and the Lacanian analyst Fouad Benchekroun. Authors
also recover lesser known histories of psychoanalytic theory: in
the work of Egyptian psychoanalyst Sami-Ali, who developed a
distinctly expansive theory of the imaginary influenced by Islamic
apophatic theology and his own clinical work; and in Iraqi
sociologist ʿAli al-Wardi’s critical reevaluation of the
unconscious, via the Islamic revolutionary tradition, as a source
of the miraculous. Moving to the contemporary era, chapters tackle
the various uses of psychoanalysis in `dialogue initiatives’ that
delegitimize Palestinians’ use of violence in Palestine/Israel;
and in efforts to `lay on the couch’ the figure of the jihadi in
contemporary France in the service of a secular modernizing
project. Engaging critical theory, history, anthropology, and
Islamic studies, this special issue will be of interest to all
those concerned with psychoanalysis in relation to a geopolitical
elsewhere. The special issue joins a growing literature on
psychoanalysis and the Middle East. It stands out insofar as it
brings together ethnographic, historical, literary, and theological
perspectives in a single volume. Prominent scholars of
psychoanalysis and Islam, including Joan Copjec and Stefania
Pandolfo, provide a contextually-informed, theoretically rich
account of psychoanalysis in the Middle East and in Islam. This
body of work demonstrates the extent to which the relationship
between Europe and the Middle East has been a site of productive
engagement for psychoanalysis. Challenging assumptions of Europe as
the metropolitan source of psychoanalytic concepts and thought,
chapters contribute to a move away from Eurocentric histories and
theoretical perspectives towards a global and transnational account
of psychoanalysis. This interdisciplinary special issue will be of
interest to scholars of psychology, psychoanalysis, Middle Eastern
studies, Islamic studies, religious studies, history, anthropology,
sociology, and postcolonial studies.
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