Islamic Psychoanalysis And Psychoanalytic Islam (cultural And Clinical Dialogues)

This pioneering volume brings together scholars and clinicians working at the intersection of Islam and psychoanalysis to explore both the connections that link these two traditions, as well as the tensions that exist between them.

This pioneering volume brings together scholars and clinicians working at the intersection of Islam and psychoanalysis to explore both the connections that link these two traditions, as well as the tensions that exist between them.

Uniting authors from a diverse range of traditions and perspectives, including Freudian, Jungian, Lacanian, Object-Relations, and Group-Analytic, the book creates a dialogue through which several key questions can be addressed. How can Islam be rendered amenable to psychoanalytic interpretation? What might an ‘Islamic psychoanalysis’ look like that accompanies and questions the forms of psychoanalysis that developed in the West? And what might a ‘psychoanalytic Islam’ look like that speaks for, and perhaps even transforms, the forms of truth that Islam produces?

In an era of increasing Islamophobia in the West, this important book identifies areas where clinical practice can be informed by a deeper understanding of contemporary Islam, as well as what it means to be a Muslim today. It will appeal to trainees and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, as well as scholars interested in religion and Islamic studies.

Foreword

Ian Parker

Introduction

Sabah Siddiqui

1. ‘The Unity in Human Sufferings’: Cultural Translatability in the Context of Arab Psychoanalytic Cultural Critique

Eva Tepest

2. Islam: A manifest or latent content?

Maryam Asl Zaker and Forough Edrissi

3. Representations of the Psyche and its dynamics in Islam: The Work of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyah

Chiara Sebastiani

4. Politics of Secular Psychoanalysis in India: Hindu-Muslim as Religious and Political Identities in Sudhir Kakar’s Writing

Zehra Mehdi

5. Between Neutrality and Disavowal: Being Muslim Psychotherapists in India

Shifa Haq and Sabah Siddiqui

6. The Repressed Event of (Shi‘I) Islam: Psychoanalysis, the Trauma of Iranian Shi‘Ism and Feminine Revolt

Farshid Kazemi

7. Becoming Revolution: From Symptom to Act in the 2011 Arab Revolts

Nathan Gorelick

8. Decolonizing Psychoanalysis / Psychoanalyzing Islamophobia

Robert K. Beshara

9. Connectedness and dreams: Exploring the possibilities of communication across interpretive traditions

Julia Borossa

10. Islam, the new modern erotic

Gohar Homayounpour

11. Enduring Trouble: Striving to Think Anew

Amal Treacher Kabesh

"A real contribution in times of rapid social change, this book sheds new light on the complex relationships between Islam, understood as a religion and host culture, and psychoanalysis. Destined to be controversial and enlightening, this remarkable collection of essays exposes open and subtle forms of mutual engagement, appropriation and transformation behind this encounter. A much-needed corrective to conventional understandings, this timely volume reveals the dynamic and subversive logic of psychoanalysis when thought of outside its secular adaptations, and beyond enduring references to Greek mytholog