9780979953927-0979953928-Umbr(a): Islam

Umbr(a): Islam

ISBN-13: 9780979953927
ISBN-10: 0979953928
Author: Moustafa Safouan, Joan Copjec, Joseph Massad, Fethi Benslama, Alberto Toscano, Christian Jambet, Stephania Pandolfo, Nathan Gorelick, Lydia R. Kerr
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture
Format: Perfect Paperback 213 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780979953927
ISBN-10: 0979953928
Author: Moustafa Safouan, Joan Copjec, Joseph Massad, Fethi Benslama, Alberto Toscano, Christian Jambet, Stephania Pandolfo, Nathan Gorelick, Lydia R. Kerr
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture
Format: Perfect Paperback 213 pages

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Umbr(a): Islam (ISBN-13: 9780979953927 and ISBN-10: 0979953928), written by authors Moustafa Safouan, Joan Copjec, Joseph Massad, Fethi Benslama, Alberto Toscano, Christian Jambet, Stephania Pandolfo, Nathan Gorelick, Lydia R. Kerr, was published by The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture in 2009. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Umbr(a): Islam (Perfect Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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 her and parts of herself she will never be able to assimilate. The existence of this force is an unsimple fact with ramifying consequences for the conception of the subject and her relations with others....

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