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Confession and psychoanalysis Spiro Jabbour ; Translated by: Aaron Frederick Eldridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jabbūr, Isbīrū, author.
- Series:
- Christian Arabic texts in translation
- Christian Arabic Texts in Translation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis and religion.
- Confession.
- Eastern churches--Doctrines.
- Eastern churches.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Confession and Psychoanalysis, written by Spiro Jabbour—the prolific Syrian monastic, scholar, and translator—offers a speculative formulation of mystical ethics in the aftermath of the postcolonial loss of tradition. Jabbour reads Freud’s theories of the drive, transference, and the unconscious through Orthodox Christian writings on the purification of the heart and transfiguration the soul in the works of, among others, John Climacus, Maximos the Confessor, and Gregory Palamas.Composed in 1983 in Homs, Confession and Psychoanalysis is the written account of the spiritual guidance Jabbour offered to a seeker who queried him concerning the practice of confession. Taking the question of spiritual interlocution and the encounter between Freudian psychoanalysis and Orthodox asceticism as its launching point, Jabbour’s text moves across a staggering breadth of topics—Islamic Sufism, psychotherapy and psycho-somatic medicine, Arabic poetics and linguistics, hesychasm, counterfeit cultural life in the aftermath of war and dispossession, and the destructive ambivalence of civilization. As such, Confession and Psychoanalysis is a window into a dynamic Middle Eastern Christian tradition that speaks with and beyond a devastated present."-- Provided by De Gruyter Brill.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on the Translation
- List of Abbreviations
- Translator's Introduction
- The Eulogy of Metropolitan Ephraim Kyriakos for the Funeral of Spiro Jabbour
- Author's Preface to the First Edition
- Author's Preface to the Second Edition
- 1. The Remembrance of Death
- 2. The Child Is a Person
- 3. Confession in the New Testament
- Confession in church usage
- 4. Confession in Psychoanalysis
- 5. The Sense of Guilt
- 1. Ambivalence
- 2. Ambivalence of the spirit and the body
- 3. The sense of guilt.
- 4. The sense of guilt and the spiritual life
- 6. The Confession of Transgressions
- How do we confess?
- How does the spiritual elder guide the monastic?
- Of what kind is this war
- 7. The Essence of Monastic Confession
- The Hesychasts
- 8. The Question of Psychosomatic Medicine, Philosophically Considered
- 9. Reiteration
- Confession for churches in the world
- Confession and repentance
- Confession and communion
- The prayer of absolution
- Objection
- Confession at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit
- 10. Repentance and Joy
- Excursus
- Supplication.
- 11. A Historical-Geographical Fragment
- 1. The Current of Pseudo-Dionysius
- 2. The Current of Makarios
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed February 16, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Jabbour, Spiro Confession and Psychoanalysis
- ISBN:
- 9781531512743
- 1531512747
- 1531512755
- 9781531512750
- OCLC:
- 1564840816
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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