Title The Arabic Freud : psychoanalysis and Islam in modern Egypt / Omnia El Shakry

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translation; INTRODUCTION Psychoanalysis and Islam; 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 ; 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 ; Divine Breath; The Topography of the Self; A Phenomenology of Mysticism; Self-Struggle (Jihad al-Nafs); Noetic Knowledge and das Ding; Conclusion; PART II SPACES OF INTERIORITY CHAPTER 3 The Psychosexual Subject Languages of Desire; The Sexual Drive; The Spiritual Physick; The Psychology of (the Female) Gender; Same-Sex Desire ; Technologies of the Self; Conclusion; CHAPTER 4 Psychoanalysis before the Law ; Psychoanalysis, Crime, and Culpability The Criminal at Midcentury; Psychoanalysis before the Law; Anti-Oedipus ; The Political Unconscious; Psychopathy; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; References; Index Summary 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-shùur-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 Analysis Abu al-Wafa al-Ghunaymi al-Taftazani Arabic Egypt Egyptian legal system Islam Islamic discourses Islamic philosophy Islamic tradition Julia Kristeva Majallat ʿIlm al-Nafs Muhammad Fathi Muhammad Mustafa Hilmi Sigmund Freud Sufism Yusuf Murad classical Islam crime criminal desire divine discourse divine transcendence ethical encounters ethical engagement ethics forensic practices gender human difference law legal regimes modern selfhood mysticism postwar Egypt postwar psychoanalysis psychoanalysis psychoanalytic psychology psychosexual subject secularization sexuality social scientific thought socius unconscious Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 22, 2017) Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence SUBJECT Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast Subject Psychoanalysis -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century Islam and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and religion. Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Islam -- Psychology. RELIGION -- Islam -- General. PSYCHOLOGY -- History. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Islam and psychoanalysis Islam -- Psychology Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis and religion Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects -- Islam SUBJECT Egypt https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004534 Subject Egypt Égypte. Ägypten Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400888030 1400888034

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