Category: Projects

Encountering Traditions explores the emergence of a vibrant movement of intellectual exchange between Muslim and Catholic scholars and religious practitioners in twentieth century Egypt. It asks: how did the encounter between Islam and Catholicism lead to an ethical thematization of religious difference? These thematizations often delineated the similarity and distinctiveness of Islamic concepts, such as……

Decolonizing Psychoanalysis imagines psychoanalysis geopolitically by drawing upon non-Western theory and apophatic theology in order to rethink key meta-psychological concepts, such as the Unconscious; Imagination; Ethics; and Embodiment. More specifically, it explores psychoanalytic theory through the oeuvre of Sami-Ali, the Arabic translator of Sigmund Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, author of a large body of……