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James L. Gelvin, Omnia El Shakry. The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt., The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 5, December 2018, Pages 1796–1797, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhy260 Historians have defined “the modern” in a number of ways. Originally used to describe the particular trajectory of Europe—and to differentiate a dynamic “West” from the rest of the globe—the term has come to connote, variously, industrialism, structures of governance born of the French Revolution, the contemporary world system of nation-states and/or the world economic system, and, most recently, a form of subjectivity marked by self-consciousness, independently held beliefs and desires, and willfulness. Viewing the modern in the last way not only has loosed the concept from its Eurocentric roots, it has opened up possibilities for formulating modernity’s heterogeneous forms. Perhaps no one is as associated with the psychic realm as Sigmund Freud, and in The Arabic Freud, O

James L. Gelvin, Omnia El Shakry. The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt., The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 5, December 2018, Pages 1796–1797, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhy260 Historians have defined “the modern” in a number of ways. Originally used to describe the particular trajectory of Europe—and to differentiate a dynamic “West” from the rest of the globe—the term has come to connote, variously, industrialism, structures of governance born of the French Revolution, the contemporary world system of nation-states and/or the world economic system, and,