Stefania Pandolfo
Biographic Data
| ID | 143728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefania Pandolfo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefania |
| FAMILY NAME | Pandolfo |
| SIGNATURE | PANDOLFO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Book forum on Charles Hirschkind, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (Chicago, 2021)
Basit Kareem Iqbal and Candace B. LukasikCharles Hirschkind begins his new book, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia, by stating his argument simply: ‘medieval Muslim Iberia d
The Knot Of The Soul: Postcolonial Conundrums, Madness, And The Imagination
Ta?bir: Figuration and the Torment of Life
This chapter is devoted to a patient named Reda and what the author calls his creative interpretation of his madness, as well as "the Cervantes stage," a play that transforms alienation from within madness itself.
Testimony in Counterpoint
Illness [is] The Introduction Of The Living To The Existence Of The Subject. Yet in the earliest times of the Islamic community the word fiqh was used to denote the science of the path of the hereafter, the recognition of the minute evils or subtle afflictions of the soul. I said that al-nafs (the soul/self) is the yeast, the fertile land that Shaytan cultivates and tills; but he doesn’t cultivate grapes, figs, and pomegranates! He cultivates des…
Faqih al-nafs: The Jurist of the Soul
This chapter focuses on a conversation between the author and Jawad and Kamal. Topics include theological disputes, the notion of heresy, migration, death, struggle, life-world, and despair.
Black Bile and the Intractable Jinn: Threshold of the Inorganic
This chapter returns to the figure of the "jinn" and its role in demonic illness.
The Jouissance of the Jinn
This chapter seeks to understand the stakes of the shari'a cure and its reach into what the author calls a jurisprudence of the soul in the practice and commentary of the Imam.
Extimacy: The Battlefield of the Nafs
This chapter analyzes the metaphysical sites of the maladies and medicines of the soul, as well as questions of natural medicine and its relation to therapy.
The Knot of the Soul (or the Cervantes Stage)
This chapter focuses on another patient, Hind, and the figure of the "jinn" as a personification of her illness.
Overture: A Topography of the Soul in the Vertigo of History
In this section, the author engages with the paintings and life of a man referred to as Ilyas, as well as the life of Samia, his companion, and their bond in the surroundings of illness. She reflects on the hermeneutic and ontological status of Ilyas's images, and their agentive force in their lives. She also connects the Islamic tradition on which Ilyas draws to the psychoanalytic writings of Binswanger, Warburg, and Lacan.
The Argument of Shirk (Idolatry)
This chapter compares modern Islamic psychology with the Quranic cure. and explores three configurations of the jinn and the self, as well as consciousness and unconsciousness.
The Jinn and the Pictogram: “The Story of My Life”
This chapter examines the history of the psychiatric hospital in the context of Moroccan social and political history.
The Hospital
This chapter introduces the main ethnographic site of the book, the institutional space of the hospital, and one psychiatric patient in particular, Amina. It also examines her voice and song through the lens of Arabic poetics.
Concluding Movement: The Passion of Zulikha, a Dramaturgy of the Soul
This chapter focuses on the "nafs"--the soul, in its relation to the heart, and the stage on which they play out their states and actions. It also explores the relation between medicine and jurisprudence, and conceptions of illness in Islam and psychiatry. Other sections explore passion, desire, and the figure of the neighbor.
Prophetic Medicine and the Ruqya
This chapter extends the previous chapter's reflections on and with the Imam, focusing on what the "Quranic cure" understands to be the causes of insanity.
Shari?a Healing: “Knowledge of the Path to the Hereafter”
This chapter delves into the author's conversation with the Imam, his teachings and therapeutic work treating the apathy of the soul. Other topics include trauma, hardship, the existential dynamics of grief, imagination, the classical Islamic theory of the faculties, perception, and the senses.
The Writing of the Soul: Soul Choking, Imagination, and Pain
This chapter focuses on idolatry and the "false healing" of traditional demonology.
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
In Knot of the Soul, Stefania Pandolfo traces the history of madness and its treatment in the Muslim world, from the classical period to the present. Drawing on a rich array of sources-including Sufi literature, medical texts, ethnographic studies, and clinical observations-Pandolfo explores the complex relationship between madness, spirituality, and healing. She argues that in Islamic societies, madness has often been understood not as a purely …
The Knot of the Soul
This chapter presents a single case study of a young Moroccan man experiencing the onset of psychosis, who was brought by police, at the request of his mother, to a psychiatric emergency department in Morocco. It discusses observations of other patients and psychiatric ideologies, and reflects on the contradictions of the postcolonial era in Morocco. The chapter suggests that diagnosis of the subjectivity of the colonized may be of more continuin…
Testimony in Counterpoint
Research Article| June 01 2008 Testimony in Counterpoint: Psychiatric Fragments in the Aftermath of Culture Stefania Pandolfo Stefania Pandolfo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 63–123. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.17.1.63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stefania Pandolfo; Testimony in Counterpoint: Psychiatric Fragments in the Aftermath of Culture. Qui…
The burning: Finitude and the politico-theological imagination of illegal migration
Based on ethnographic research with Moroccan youth, the article traces debates and vocabularies related to the experience and imagination of clandestine migration to Europe ( l-harg, `the burning'), and the risk to one's life this entails, with a particular focus on the way Islamic eschatology and political theology provide the conceptual framework and ethical horizon within which subjectivity and despair, the de facto exclusion from citizenship,…
B ̋ì T N ̋ Anni Hnaya” ( Je Veux Chanter Ici) Voix Et Témoignage en Marge D’une Rencontre Psychiatrique
Nibtidi mnin il-hikaya [Where are we to start the tale]: Violence, Intimacy, and Recollection
Based on an ethnographic fragment from the author's anthropological research at a Moroccan psychiatric hospital, this article is a reflection on the "border zones" of theory and experience, increasingly the stuff of everyday life, which are crucial for understanding life in the indeterminacy of the normal and the pathological, of subjectivity and depersonalization, of remembrance and forgetting, of emancipation and subjugation. The article follow…
Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Memory of Space
The Bride Market of Imilchil. 1986. Produced and directed by Christian Pierce and Steffen Pierce . 58 minutes, color
The burning: Finitude and the politico-theological imagination of illegal migration
Based on ethnographic research with Moroccan youth, the article traces debates and vocabularies related to the experience and imagination of clandestine migration to Europe ( l-harg, `the burning'), and the risk to one's life this entails, with a particular focus on the way Islamic eschatology and political theology provide the conceptual framework and ethical horizon within which subjectivity and despair, the de facto exclusion from citizenship,…
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
In Knot of the Soul, Stefania Pandolfo traces the history of madness and its treatment in the Muslim world, from the classical period to the present. Drawing on a rich array of sources-including Sufi literature, medical texts, ethnographic studies, and clinical observations-Pandolfo explores the complex relationship between madness, spirituality, and healing. She argues that in Islamic societies, madness has often been understood not as a purely …
Detours of life: Space and bodies in a Moroccan village
This essay is an interpretation of the internal logic of a way of imagining space, movement and the body in a village in pre-Saharan Morocco. I begin with the analysis of an informant's graphic representation of his village and then spin its threads in terms of a local discourse of structural insufficiency and symbolic ambivalence, which I pursue ethnographically through a number of domains, while suggesting at the same time the contours of a dia…
Nibtidi mnin il-hikaya [Where are we to start the tale]: Violence, Intimacy, and Recollection
Based on an ethnographic fragment from the author's anthropological research at a Moroccan psychiatric hospital, this article is a reflection on the "border zones" of theory and experience, increasingly the stuff of everyday life, which are crucial for understanding life in the indeterminacy of the normal and the pathological, of subjectivity and depersonalization, of remembrance and forgetting, of emancipation and subjugation. The article follow…
Detours of life: Space and bodies in a Moroccan village
This essay is an interpretation of the internal logic of a way of imagining space, movement and the body in a village in pre-Saharan Morocco. I begin with the analysis of an informant's graphic representation of his village and then spin its threads in terms of a local discourse of structural insufficiency and symbolic ambivalence, which I pursue ethnographically through a number of domains, while suggesting at the same time the contours of a dia…
The Bride Market of Imilchil. 1986. Produced and directed by Christian Pierce and Steffen Pierce . 58 minutes, color
Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Memory of Space
B ̋ì T N ̋ Anni Hnaya” ( Je Veux Chanter Ici) Voix Et Témoignage en Marge D’une Rencontre Psychiatrique
Nibtidi mnin il-hikaya [Where are we to start the tale]: Violence, Intimacy, and Recollection
Based on an ethnographic fragment from the author's anthropological research at a Moroccan psychiatric hospital, this article is a reflection on the "border zones" of theory and experience, increasingly the stuff of everyday life, which are crucial for understanding life in the indeterminacy of the normal and the pathological, of subjectivity and depersonalization, of remembrance and forgetting, of emancipation and subjugation. The article follow…
The burning: Finitude and the politico-theological imagination of illegal migration
Based on ethnographic research with Moroccan youth, the article traces debates and vocabularies related to the experience and imagination of clandestine migration to Europe ( l-harg, `the burning'), and the risk to one's life this entails, with a particular focus on the way Islamic eschatology and political theology provide the conceptual framework and ethical horizon within which subjectivity and despair, the de facto exclusion from citizenship,…
The Knot of the Soul
This chapter presents a single case study of a young Moroccan man experiencing the onset of psychosis, who was brought by police, at the request of his mother, to a psychiatric emergency department in Morocco. It discusses observations of other patients and psychiatric ideologies, and reflects on the contradictions of the postcolonial era in Morocco. The chapter suggests that diagnosis of the subjectivity of the colonized may be of more continuin…
Testimony in Counterpoint
Research Article| June 01 2008 Testimony in Counterpoint: Psychiatric Fragments in the Aftermath of Culture Stefania Pandolfo Stefania Pandolfo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 63–123. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.17.1.63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stefania Pandolfo; Testimony in Counterpoint: Psychiatric Fragments in the Aftermath of Culture. Qui…
Ta?bir: Figuration and the Torment of Life
This chapter is devoted to a patient named Reda and what the author calls his creative interpretation of his madness, as well as "the Cervantes stage," a play that transforms alienation from within madness itself.
Testimony in Counterpoint
Illness [is] The Introduction Of The Living To The Existence Of The Subject. Yet in the earliest times of the Islamic community the word fiqh was used to denote the science of the path of the hereafter, the recognition of the minute evils or subtle afflictions of the soul. I said that al-nafs (the soul/self) is the yeast, the fertile land that Shaytan cultivates and tills; but he doesn’t cultivate grapes, figs, and pomegranates! He cultivates des…
Faqih al-nafs: The Jurist of the Soul
This chapter focuses on a conversation between the author and Jawad and Kamal. Topics include theological disputes, the notion of heresy, migration, death, struggle, life-world, and despair.
Black Bile and the Intractable Jinn: Threshold of the Inorganic
This chapter returns to the figure of the "jinn" and its role in demonic illness.
The Jouissance of the Jinn
This chapter seeks to understand the stakes of the shari'a cure and its reach into what the author calls a jurisprudence of the soul in the practice and commentary of the Imam.
Extimacy: The Battlefield of the Nafs
This chapter analyzes the metaphysical sites of the maladies and medicines of the soul, as well as questions of natural medicine and its relation to therapy.
The Knot of the Soul (or the Cervantes Stage)
This chapter focuses on another patient, Hind, and the figure of the "jinn" as a personification of her illness.
Overture: A Topography of the Soul in the Vertigo of History
In this section, the author engages with the paintings and life of a man referred to as Ilyas, as well as the life of Samia, his companion, and their bond in the surroundings of illness. She reflects on the hermeneutic and ontological status of Ilyas's images, and their agentive force in their lives. She also connects the Islamic tradition on which Ilyas draws to the psychoanalytic writings of Binswanger, Warburg, and Lacan.
The Argument of Shirk (Idolatry)
This chapter compares modern Islamic psychology with the Quranic cure. and explores three configurations of the jinn and the self, as well as consciousness and unconsciousness.
The Jinn and the Pictogram: “The Story of My Life”
This chapter examines the history of the psychiatric hospital in the context of Moroccan social and political history.
The Hospital
This chapter introduces the main ethnographic site of the book, the institutional space of the hospital, and one psychiatric patient in particular, Amina. It also examines her voice and song through the lens of Arabic poetics.
Concluding Movement: The Passion of Zulikha, a Dramaturgy of the Soul
This chapter focuses on the "nafs"--the soul, in its relation to the heart, and the stage on which they play out their states and actions. It also explores the relation between medicine and jurisprudence, and conceptions of illness in Islam and psychiatry. Other sections explore passion, desire, and the figure of the neighbor.
Prophetic Medicine and the Ruqya
This chapter extends the previous chapter's reflections on and with the Imam, focusing on what the "Quranic cure" understands to be the causes of insanity.
Shari?a Healing: “Knowledge of the Path to the Hereafter”
This chapter delves into the author's conversation with the Imam, his teachings and therapeutic work treating the apathy of the soul. Other topics include trauma, hardship, the existential dynamics of grief, imagination, the classical Islamic theory of the faculties, perception, and the senses.
The Writing of the Soul: Soul Choking, Imagination, and Pain
This chapter focuses on idolatry and the "false healing" of traditional demonology.
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
In Knot of the Soul, Stefania Pandolfo traces the history of madness and its treatment in the Muslim world, from the classical period to the present. Drawing on a rich array of sources-including Sufi literature, medical texts, ethnographic studies, and clinical observations-Pandolfo explores the complex relationship between madness, spirituality, and healing. She argues that in Islamic societies, madness has often been understood not as a purely …
The Knot Of The Soul: Postcolonial Conundrums, Madness, And The Imagination
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