Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
By (Author) Fethi Benslama
Translated by Robert Bononno
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
20th August 2009
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Islam
297.261
Physical Properties
Paperback
272
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 18mm
Description
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.
Author Bio
Fethi Benslama teaches at the University of Paris VII and is the editor of the psychoanalytic journal Intersignes.
