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Umbr(a): Islam by Joan Copjec, Fethi Benslama, Christian Jambet, Joseph Massad, Stephania Pandolfo, Moustafa Safouan, Alberto Toscano, Nathan Gorelick, Lydia R. Kerr is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Umbr(a): Islam about?
Regarding the questions raised by the current conflicts troubling our relations with various parts of the Islamic world, the premise of this special issue is that psychoanalysis offers a unique, powerful and even necessary approach. We anticipate that certain historicists and culturalists will protests that the discourse of psychoanalysis is entirely inappropriate to this task, that its categories for analyzing or rendering transparent the Arab mind cannot be transported to foreign soil and that the bid of do so is just another example of the West s ambition to Occidentalize the world, to market its franchise worldwide.... To contest these charges which, aimed at a straw science, miss their mark we will propose for psychoanalysis a different adjective, one that will help less to qualify than to de-qualify our de-regionalize it; psychoanalysis is, we suggest, an exotic science. In physics the existence of an exotic force accounts for the phenomenon in which objects that are close are pushed slightly away from each other. Psychoanalysis is that science devoted to studying the exotic force that operates in the subject to push her from herself, opening a margin of separation between he
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- Author
- Joan Copjec, Fethi Benslama, Christian Jambet, Joseph Massad, Stephania Pandolfo, Moustafa Safouan, Alberto Toscano, Nathan Gorelick, Lydia R. Kerr
- Publisher
- The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780979953927
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion
