Knot of the Soul
Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
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Part I. Psychiatric Fragments in the Aftermath of Culture
1. Testimony in Counterpoint
2. The Hospital
3. The Jinn and the Pictogram: “The Story of My Life”
4. The Knot of the Soul (or the Cervantes Stage)
Part II. The Passage: Imagination, Alienation
5. Taʿbīr: Figuration and the Torment of Life
6. The Burning
Part III. The Jurisprudence of the Soul
7. Overture: A Topography of the Soul in the Vertigo of History
8. Faqīh al-nafs: The Jurist of the Soul
9. Shariʿa Healing: “Knowledge of the Path to the Hereafter”
10. Prophetic Medicine and the Ruqya
11. The Jouissance of the Jinn
12. The Psychiatrist and the Imam
13. Black Bile and the Intractable Jinn: Threshold of the Inorganic
14. The Argument of Shirk (Idolatry)
15. Extimacy: The Battlefield of the Nafs
16. The Writing of the Soul: Soul Choking, Imagination, and Pain
17. Concluding Movement: The Passion of Zulikha, a Dramaturgy of the Soul
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Society for Psychoanalytic Anthropology: Boyer Prize
Won
Middle East Studies Association: Fatima Mernissi Book Award
Honorable Mention
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