The Arabic Freud : Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt / Omnia El Shakry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Influence.

Freud, Sigmund.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Psychoanalysis--Egypt--History--20th century.

Psychoanalysis.

Islam and psychoanalysis.

El Shakry, Omnia.

History.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

xiii, 206 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Summary:

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 "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.

Contents:

Introduction Psychoanalysis and Islam 1

A Copernican Revolution

Psychoanalysis and the Religious Subject

The Mystic Fable

Psychoanalysis and Islam: A Tale of Mutual Understanding?

Decolonizing the Self

Structure, Method, and Argument

Part I The Unconscious and the Modern Subject

Chapter 1 Psychoanalysis and the Psyche 21

Translating the Unconscious

The Integrative Subject

Unity and the Philosophical Self

The Epistemology of Psychoanalysis and the Analytic Structure

Insight and Hermeneutics

The Socius: Self and Other

Conclusion

Chapter 2 The Self and the Soul 42

Divine Breath

The Topography of the Self

A Phenomenology of Mysticism

Self Struggle (Jihad al-Nafs)

Noetic Knowledge and das Ding

Part II Spaces of Interiority

Chapter 3 The Psychosexual Subject 63

Languages of Desire

The Sexual Drive

The Spiritual Physick

The Psychology of (the Female) Gender

Same-Sex Desire

Technologies of the Self

Chapter 4 Psychoanalysis before the Law 83

Psychoanalysis, Crime, and Culpability

The Criminal at Midcentury

Psychoanalysis before the Law

Anti-Oedipus

The Political Unconscious

Psychopathy

Epilogue 110.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-190) and index.

ISBN:

9780691174792

0691174792

OCLC:

974676527