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The Arabic Freud : psychoanalysis and Islam in modern Egypt
- Title
- The Arabic Freud : psychoanalysis and Islam in modern Egypt / Omnia El Shakry.
- Author
- El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970-
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xiii, 206 pages; 24 cm
- 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 Àrabi-al-la-shuùr-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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-190) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-10136
- ISBN
- 9780691174792
- 0691174792
- LCCN
- 2017940319
- OCLC
- 974676527
- Author
- El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970- author.
- Title
- The Arabic Freud : psychoanalysis and Islam in modern Egypt / Omnia El Shakry.
- Publisher
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-190) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-10136