The Arabic Freud El Shakry, Omnia
2017, 20170829, 2017-08-29
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The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought
In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term ...borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn 'Arabi-al-la-shu'ur-as a translation for Sigmund Freud's concept of the unconscious. By the late 1950s, Freud'sInterpretation of Dreamshad been translated into Arabic for an eager Egyptian public. InThe Arabic Freud, Omnia El Shakry challenges the notion of a strict divide between psychoanalysis and Islam by tracing how postwar thinkers in Egypt blended psychoanalytic theories with concepts from classical Islamic thought in a creative encounter of ethical engagement.
Drawing on scholarly writings as well as popular literature on self-healing, El Shakry provides the first in-depth examination of psychoanalysis in Egypt and reveals how a new science of psychology-or "science of the soul," as it came to be called-was inextricably linked to Islam and mysticism. She explores how Freudian ideas of the unconscious were crucial to the formation of modern discourses of subjectivity in areas as diverse as psychology, Islamic philosophy, and the law. Founding figures of Egyptian psychoanalysis, she shows, debated the temporality of the psyche, mystical states, the sexual drive, and the Oedipus complex, while offering startling insights into the nature of psychic life, ethics, and eros.
This provocative and insightful book invites us to rethink the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion in the modern era. Mapping the points of intersection between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought, it illustrates how the Arabic Freud, like psychoanalysis itself, was elaborated across the space of human difference.
Merleau-Ponty's understanding of 'passivity' is a key to his account of perception. For Merleau-Ponty, perception is the way in which we are involved in the world, and it is on perception that the ...functions of understanding, reason, and reflection ultimately rest. While in his Phenomenology of Perception it is already clear that passive and active are intertwined, from a series of lectures he gave in 1954–5 we learn that inauguration or 'institution' arises out of a passivity that is not merely an absence of activity. I show how the thoroughly temporal status of the subject as 'instituting' distinguishes it from a certain model of the 'constituting' subject. Next, I argue that, to grasp the sense in which Merleau-Ponty intends 'passivity', we must recognize its mediating or transitional status. Specifically, I examine terms that arise repeatedly in his analysis of the Freudian account of the unconscious — namely, 'pivot' and 'enjambment' — to show how they reveal the peculiar status of a passivity that operates through a dialectic focused on its transitional terms rather than on opposing poles. Finally, I suggest the exchange between passivity and institution that Merleau-Ponty has in mind can be illuminated through consideration of late Palaeolithic cave paintings, where the rock itself seems to begin an expression that the artist completes.
Do narcissistic CEOs rock the boat? Aabo, Tom; Hoejland, Frederik; Pedersen, Jesper
Review of behavioral finance,
04/2021, Volume:
13, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of narcissistic supply for the association between CEO narcissism and corporate risk taking.Design/methodology/approachThe authors ...investigate a sample of 281 non-financial S&P 1500 firms and a corresponding 457 CEOs in the 10-yr period 2006–2015.FindingsThe association between CEO narcissism and corporate risk taking depends on the admiration, attention, and affirmation of own superiority (“narcissistic supply”) that the CEO receives given her/his current position. Thus, a narcissistic CEO with an insufficient narcissistic supply (small firm/small compensation) will crave for more and take more risks (“rock the boat”) while a narcissistic CEO with a sufficient narcissistic supply (large firm/large compensation) will protect the status quo and be reluctant to take new risks. Specifically, the authors find that a change from a slightly narcissistic CEO to a strongly narcissistic CEO, for positions entailing limited (abundant) narcissistic supply, is associated with an increase (a decrease) in corporate risk of 6%–8% (11%–27%).Originality/valuePrevious research indicates a positive association between CEO narcissism and corporate risk taking in specific domains such as M&A and R&D activities. This paper provides a novel contribution to the existing literature by identifying and assessing the important role of narcissistic supply for the association between CEO narcissism and corporate risk taking in general.
Les savoirs-mondes: Mobilités et circulation des savoirs depuis le Moyen Âge, edited by Pilar González Bernaldo and Liliane Hilaire-Peréz. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015, 514 pp. A ...preface by Daniel Roche places the work in the context of treating the history of knowledge through the lens of exchange. The contributions are divided into six thematic sections, with each section maintaining a high degree of chronological and geographical diversity.
Edward Hirsch s Gabriel A Poem is a heartbreaking odyssey of grief, shock, and remediation following the untimely death of his son, Gabriel. In The English Elegy, Peter Sacks draws on Freuds ..."Mourning and Melancholia" to read traditional elegy as a consolatory substitution for the lost individual that employs a number of defensive strategies including deflections of power. In this discussion, I will apply key points from the theories of Freud and other critics to a reading of Hirsch s book-length elegy.
Teaching Freud Today? Stuart, Jennifer
American imago,
07/2018, Volume:
75, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
...Freud’s place in education—both within our institutes and beyond—has been in dispute for years, perhaps never more so than in the present. Why study “Dora” at all, then? Because it captures Freud ...in a stance offensive to contemporary sensibilities, his work on this case highlights his position as a man of his particular time and place, unable to see clearly the influence of context on either his theory or his reactions to patients. The spirit in which I teach this passage accords with Marcus’s exegesis of the text: that “Freud would have been the first to be amused” by this observation, and “would have said that such slips—and the revelation of their meanings—are the smallest price one has to pay for the courage to go on” (Marcus, 1974/1990, p. 83).4 Students readily understand, if not spontaneously then when it is pointed out to them, that however the reading public might actually receive his work, Freud is for the moment conjuring critics’ voices from his own head. Alongside his intellectual motives—to illustrate parallels between symptom formation and dream formation, and the clinical utility of his interpretive method in analyzing both—Freud was perhaps compelled by his emotional reaction to Dora’s abrupt departure.
This article addresses how the practice of writing for William James and Sigmund Freud served as a sustaining object/practice and a testament of faith when they faced illness and death. More ...particularly, their practice of writing reveals not only their attitudes and beliefs about death and life but also the core ideas in which they put their trust and their fidelity.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE Grose, Thomas K
ASEE prism,
03/2018, Volume:
27, Issue:
7
Journal Article
Artificial intelligence systems are routinely starting to surpass human cognitive abilities. But even programs that seemingly work well still have glitches. For instance, three commercially available ...facial-analysis programs work as advertised only if they're assessing light-skinned men. When it comes to dark-skinned women? A new study led by Joy Buolamwini, a computer scientist at MIT Media Lab's Civic Media group, found that when analyzing white males, the programs' error rate was only 0.8%. But when they scanned dark-skinned women, the error rate of one program was over 20 percent and the other two more than 34%. The problem, Buolamwini says, is data used to train the AI systems are often biased. In one company's case, the data set was more than 77% male and 83% white. One of the scarier aspects of AI, particularly machine learning, is that computer scientists don't know how systems teach themselves.
From the moment Freud first came up against repetition and the resistance of the symptom in his clinical practice and was thus forced to acknowledge a beyond of the pleasure principle that acts ...within the subject, the unconscious could no longer be conceived as a site of representations that are repressed because they are forbidden or inadmissible in the cultural or social sphere. This essay explores the manifestations and the consequences of this act in the clinical practice and in the domain of aesthetics, arguing that the act is not merely the source of the subject’s troubles but the manifestation of an unconscious quest by which we recognize desire.
The Journal's Homecoming Rose, Louis
American imago,
06/2018, Volume:
75, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
First with Imago and then American Imago, our readership has reconceived and reaffirmed the journal’s work and mission across generations and disciplines. ...Warburg described his presentation as an ...“isolated and highly provisional experiment,” but one that he also thought essential, if for no other reason than as “a plea for an extension of the methodological borders of our study of art, in both material and spatial terms.” According to Warburg, mottos, emblems, and seals deserved far greater attention from researchers than they usually received, and I have often thought, when considering the history of Imago and American Imago, that the journal could have chosen for its intellectual motto Warburg’s call for scholars to “range freely, with no fear of border guards.”
