Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam

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.

Ian Parker is a Psychoanalyst in Manchester, and Sabah Siddiqui is a Researcher and author of Religion and Psychoanalysis in India (Routledge, 2016). They are both members of the Discourse Unit and the Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix.

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