Arabic Freud - Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

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

A propos de l'auteur

Omnia El Shakry is professor of history at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt and the editor of Gender and Sexuality in Islam.

Résumé

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

Texte suppl.

"The Arabic Freud . . . offers a richly researched intellectual history of an encounter between psychoanalysis and Islam which took place in Egypt over the 1940s and 1950s . . . . El Shakry recuperates these thinkers not simply as objects of historical inquiry, or as mere products of their political context, but producers of theory in their own right, whose arguments and ideas can enrich and expand our understandings of the self and the other, intuition and ethical cultivation, and psychoanalysis and Islam, today."---Chris Wilson, History of the Human Sciences

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Omnia El Shakry, Omnia S. El Shakry
• Edition: Princeton University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780691174792
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17479-2
• Pages: 224
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire culturelle; Egypt, HISTORY / Social History, Psychology, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Islamic Studies, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis