11-06-2009, 11:49 PM
Am currrently reading "Psychoanalysis And The Challenge of Islam". The book takes of from Freud's "Moses and Monotheism" and is fascinating so far.
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Fethi Benslama
Translated by Robert Bononno
Unveils the psychoanalytic undercurrents of contemporary Islam.
Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst who, although a secular thinker, identifies himself as a person of Muslim culture who rejects ready-made explanations for Islamic fundamentalism. In that spirit, <b>Benslama demythifies both Islam and Western ideas of the religion by addressing the psychoanalytic root causes of the Muslim worldâs clash with modernity and subsequent turn to fundamentalism.</b>
Tracing this ideological strain to its origins, <b>Benslama shows that contemporary Islam consists of a fairly recent hybridization of Arab nationalism, theocracy, and an attempt (both naïve and deadly) to ground science in faith.</b> Combining textual analysis and Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, he examines Islamâs foundation, providing fresh readings of the book of Genesis, the Koran, The Arabian Nights, and the work of medieval Islamic philosophers.
Refreshingly, <b>Benslama</b> writes without ideological bias and <b>undoes the simplistic, Western view of Islam while refusing to romanticize terrorism or Muslim extremism. This is a penetrating work that reveals an alternate history of the Islamic religion and opens new possibilities for its future development.</b>
Fethi Benslama teaches at the University of Paris VII and is the editor of the psychoanalytic journal Intersignes.
272 pages | 2 b&w photos | 6 x 9 | 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
1. The Torment of Origin
2. The Repudiation of Origin
3. Destinies of the Other Woman
4. Within Himself
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
Fethi Benslama
Translated by Robert Bononno
Unveils the psychoanalytic undercurrents of contemporary Islam.
Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst who, although a secular thinker, identifies himself as a person of Muslim culture who rejects ready-made explanations for Islamic fundamentalism. In that spirit, <b>Benslama demythifies both Islam and Western ideas of the religion by addressing the psychoanalytic root causes of the Muslim worldâs clash with modernity and subsequent turn to fundamentalism.</b>
Tracing this ideological strain to its origins, <b>Benslama shows that contemporary Islam consists of a fairly recent hybridization of Arab nationalism, theocracy, and an attempt (both naïve and deadly) to ground science in faith.</b> Combining textual analysis and Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, he examines Islamâs foundation, providing fresh readings of the book of Genesis, the Koran, The Arabian Nights, and the work of medieval Islamic philosophers.
Refreshingly, <b>Benslama</b> writes without ideological bias and <b>undoes the simplistic, Western view of Islam while refusing to romanticize terrorism or Muslim extremism. This is a penetrating work that reveals an alternate history of the Islamic religion and opens new possibilities for its future development.</b>
Fethi Benslama teaches at the University of Paris VII and is the editor of the psychoanalytic journal Intersignes.
272 pages | 2 b&w photos | 6 x 9 | 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
1. The Torment of Origin
2. The Repudiation of Origin
3. Destinies of the Other Woman
4. Within Himself
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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