Quotes that I found impactful in answering this question as well as my responses underneath:“integrative psychology, which presented the self not solely as a body, or a psyche, or even a psyche added to a body, but rather as “wahda nafsiyya, jismiyya, ijtimaʿiyya,” the unity of psychic, bodily, and societal aspects.
“It is important to note that such epistemological resonances between Sufism and psychoanalysis were not related solely to the “infiltration” of Western ideas into the Middle Eastern world.
- What does it mean, I ask, to think through psychoanalysisand Islam together, not as a “problem” but as a creative encounter of ethicalengagement?
Shakry’s (2017) book explores the conjunctions and elaborations of psychoanalysis and Islamic thought. Shakry uses 20th century thinkers of Egypt to demonstrate how Islamic traditions were used to think through some of the profound theories of psychoanalysis.
"Homo psychoanalyticus was thus not characterized by "the neutralization of ethics and of the political realm" and a dissociation of the "psychoanalytical sphere from the sphere of the citizen or moral subject in his or her public of private life." Rather, psychoanalysis presented the possibility of enjoyment in the use of the other as an instrument or object, while at the same time offering a means of undermining that sovereign pleasure, precisely by critically analyzing one's own psychic implication in it.
