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Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
Fethi Benslama
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Description for Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
Paperback. Translator(s): Bononno, Robert. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 b&w photos. BIC Classification: HRH; MMJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
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, Benslama demythifies both Islam and Western ideas of the religion by addressing the psychoanalytic root causes of the Muslim world's clash with modernity and subsequent turn to fundamentalism. Tracing this ideological strain to its origins, Benslama shows that contemporary Islam consists of a fairly recent hybridization of Arab nationalism, theocracy, and an attempt (both naive and deadly) to ground science in faith. Combining textual analysis and Lacanian and Freudian ... Read more
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, Benslama demythifies both Islam and Western ideas of the religion by addressing the psychoanalytic root causes of the Muslim world's clash with modernity and subsequent turn to fundamentalism. Tracing this ideological strain to its origins, Benslama shows that contemporary Islam consists of a fairly recent hybridization of Arab nationalism, theocracy, and an attempt (both naive and deadly) to ground science in faith. Combining textual analysis and Lacanian and Freudian ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816648894
SKU
V9780816648894
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About Fethi Benslama
Fethi Benslama teaches at the University of Paris VII and is the editor of the psychoanalytic journal Intersignes.
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