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The Arabic Freud : psychoanalysis and Islam in modern Egypt

El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970- author

2017

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 Influence. / Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. / El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970- / Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939). / El Shakry, Omnia S. (1970-). / Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939 / 1900-1999 / Psychoanalysis Egypt History 20th century. / Islam and psychoanalysis. / Freudian Theory history. / Islam history. / History, 20th Century. / Psychanalyse âEgypte 20e siلecle. / Psychanalyse et islam. / Thâeorie freudienne histoire. / Islam histoire. / Vingtiلeme siلecle. / Islam / Psychoanalyse / Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) / Psychoanalysis. / Egypt. / âEgypte. / èAgypten
• ISBN: 9780691174792, 0691174792

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BP190.5.P78 E47 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE