The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
ISBN-10
0691203105
ISBN-13
9780691203102
Category
History
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2020-03-31
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Omnia El Shakry

Description

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.

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