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The Arabic Freud - Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt (Hardcover)
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The Arabic Freud - Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt (Hardcover)
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The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the
intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought
In 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 "science of the soul," 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.
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