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The Egyptian psychoanalyst Mustafa Safwan (1921-2020) died yesterday at his home in Paris, leaving a legacy and a rare experience in psychoanalysis on which he relied on the Jacques Lacan school, where he was described as Lacan’s most faithful student. of his thought and method.
Safwan studied philosophy at the Egyptian University beginning in 1939, then he studied psychoanalysis, and his upbringing was in a time full of feathers who still believed in the idea of the Arab revival, from Abd al-Rahman al-Rafi’i, al-Akkad , Taha Hussein and al-Mazni, in addition to the crystallization of the intellectual translation movement. He was born into an enlightened family and was educated in different languages at a young age, until his father, Al-Azhari, was arrested, accused of being associated with communism.
Safwan grew up according to rational principles and had dreamed of going to Cambridge since his teens. Therefore, he continued his studies in philosophy while studying Greek, Latin, French, and English, in addition to developing his qualifications in Standard Arabic. In 1940 he discovered Freudian work, teaching Mustapha Ziouar, a member of the Psychoanalytic Society in Paris, who advised him to go, not to England, but to France to train in psychoanalysis.
Among the most prominent books he transmitted into Arabic are Mustafa Hegazy, “Speech or Death” and “Why Arabs Are Not Free.”
Safwan left Egypt in 1946 for France and joined the Sorbonne University there, and met with Balakan, which he describes as an encounter that completely changed the course of his life. Together with others, he founded the Constituent Psychoanalytic Association, in 1983, and became a member of the European Foundation for Psychoanalysis.
Among the most outstanding books he transmitted into Arabic are Mustafa Hegazy: “Speech or Death (Language as a Social System: A Psychoanalytic Study)”, “Four Lessons in Psychoanalysis”, “Why Arabs Are Not Free” and “The post-Oedipal civilization”. “Towards a different Arab world”, “female sexuality”, “failure of the pleasure principle”, “the unconscious and its writer”, “the subtraction and longing of the analyst”, and “Narrowness in the psychological analysis” and others.
Safwan translated Freud’s “Interpretation of Dreams” into Arabic, De Laboisie’s “voluntary servitude”, and also transferred Shakespeare’s plays into the Egyptian vernacular.
In their conversations and meetings, Safwan criticized the Egyptians’ relationship with the government and state that practices violence as a legitimate practice from heaven. It says: “The Egyptian people have established a state in which they became the slave of the ruler. .
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