Elizabeth Urban
Biographic Data
| ID | 3434086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Urban |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Urban |
| SIGNATURE | URBAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Transnational Press London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2981-7431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
Tree of Pearls
Almost any survey of medieval Islamic history will cover the figure of Shajar al-Durr (“Tree of Pearls” in Arabic), who was one of the fewwomen in Islamic history to hold the title of Sultan, and the only one to do so who began her life as a slave. She is also well known as a pivotal figure in Egyptian politics, as she marked the transition between Saladin’s Ayyubid dynasty (1171–1250 CE) and the Mamluk sultanate (1250–1517 CE). However, works th…
Race, gender and slavery in early Islamicate history
Slavery was practiced in parts of the Islamicate world from the 7th through 21st centuries. Until the late 20th century, many authors claimed that Islamicate slavery was relatively benign and free from racism. However, recent scholarship has found evidence of race‐thinking in Islamicate history—particularly anti‐Black racism and an association between Blackness and enslavement—tracing back at least to the ninth‐century CE. Scholars still contest …
Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257, written by Taef El-Azhari
Possessed by the Right Hand
The last several years have seen an explosion of scholarly interest in slavery in the Islamic world and other global contexts. Recent contributions to this field include Jonathan A.C. Brown’s Slavery in Islam and Mary Ann Fay’s edited volume, Slavery in the Islamic World; a new edition of Orlando Patterson’s seminal Slavery and Social Death has also recently been published with a new preface. With his ambitious and erudite monograph, Possessed by…
Conquered Populations in Early Islam
Explores the ways in which new Muslims of slave origins were integrated into early Islamic society Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020 Brings together three separate groups (freedmen, slave women and the children of enslaved mothers) as parts of the same prism of unfreedom Recovers enslaved women's voices and treats them as important agents of historical change Combines close textual analysis with large-scale demographic study to provide mult…
Response to Roger Brooke's critique of ‘On matters of mind and body
On matters of mind and body
In this paper the author considers Descartes' place in current thinking about the mind-body dilemma. The premise here is that in the history of ideas, the questions posed can be as significant as the answers acquired. Descartes' paramount question was 'How do we determine certainty?' and his pursuit of an answer led to cogito ergo sum. His discovery simultaneously raised the question whether mind is separate from or unified with the body. Some wh…
The Politics and Culture of an Umayyad Tribe
Every scholar of early Islamic history knows that Arab tribes were integral to the success of the Islamic conquests and the functioning of the Umayyad caliphate (661–750 ce). However, scholars have largely neglected to study these tribes in depth; the Syrian tribes in particular have suffered from a dearth of scholarly interest. This neglect stems partly from the frustrations of the early Islamic sources, which were mostly written by Iraqi author…
Michael Fordham and the Journal of Analytical Psychology
This short paper was presented to a conference in honour of the 60(th) year of the JAP and was one of others that acknowledged the contribution of Michael Fordham. The subtitle refers to the paper's overview of Fordham's published oeuvre and the particular place of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, for which he was the founding editor. Fordham's contribution to a Jungian-based model of development is discussed, with reference to his papers in…
Introduction to three clinical papers
The Foundations of Islamic Society as Expressed by the Qur'anic Term mawlā
This article posits that the Qur'anic term mawlā (pl. mawālī) is crucial for understanding the foundations of the Islamic community; the term designates those bonds of help and cooperation that united the earliest umma as a functional faith community. To demonstrate the significance of the term mawlā in the Qur'an, this article combines two distinct methodologies. First, it shows how the word mawlā relates to other variations of the Arabic root w…
End notes
Following the publication in this journal of two of Fordham's unpublished papers selected by James Astor (2010, 55, 5), the editors have asked me to select a further two. I have chosen two clinical pieces, one clinical notes and the other notes that refine his previous thinking, which Fordham wrote at the end of his life. Both are examples of the way Fordham continued throughout his analytic work to turn to patients as his primary source of learn…
Reflections on research and learning from the patient
Over three decades ago, John Bowlby argued for psychoanalysis to seek beyond its own parameters if it was to maintain its claim to be a science. Since then there has been a wealth of relevant research from various fields. While this has been instrumental in the development of my own work, this paper concerns learning from the patient. The paper begins with a premise: interpretative analytic work requires three-dimensionality (self, other and obje…
Transcendent function or group dysfunction? Comments on ‘Transcendence, transmission and transformation
Conjugating the self
The ‘self’ in analytical psychology
This paper concerns the self as Fordham came to conceive it after a conceptual analysis of Jung's use of the term. Fordham identified a contradiction in Jung's usage, and resolved it by reserving 'self' for a definition of the psychosomatic entirety of the individual, and using a separate term for referring to expressions of the self in human experience (e.g. symbols). Fordham tentatively suggested that the latter be termed the 'central archetype…
Fordham, Jung and the self
This paper is about Fordham's contribution to Jung's studies on the self. It opens with the epistemological dilemmas inherent in the subject, before moving on to an account of Fordham's research into the incompatible ways Jung used the term 'self'. There is a description of Fordham's model, which covers his concepts of the primary self, deintegration, reintegration, self objects, self representations, and individuation in infancy. There is a sect…
Developmental aspects of trauma and traumatic aspects of development
In this paper I try to show that inherent in healthy development are emotional experiences that are the stuff of trauma. Failure to reintegrate these experiences means that they can serve as a resonating board for difficulties in later life, adding to their traumatic impact. Focusing on global changes that occur at the end of the first year, I exemplify these developments with an infant observation and show how a six-year-old boy's failure to int…
States of identity
This paper examines the Jungian concept of identity and distinguishes it from projective identification and participation mystique which also refer to non‐differentiation between self and object but involve projective mechanisms. Clinical work by Fordham and a psychoanalytic infant observation are used to illustrate early perceptual operations defined by experimental researches. These operations are understood to be expressions of the primary sel…
Out of the Mouths of Babes
The Primary Self and Related Concepts in Jung, Klein, and Isaacs
In this paper, I have tried to re-examine my understanding of early psychic processes and contents. This has involved comparing and contrasting the ideas of Jung, Klein, Isaacs, and Fordham, with an emphasis on the contributions of Fordham. Fordham's postulate of a primary self that deintegrates and reintegrates is a model of the mind that combines structure and dynamics, and which, moreover, helps to describe what is observed in infant observati…
Childhood Deafness
The primary self postulated by Fordham draws upon both psychic and bodily structures to unfold needs and potentials in the external world. In this paper I have presented some thoughts on the role of the ear and of hearing in bringing the neonate into relationship with its mother and broader environment in early deintegrative processes. The ear serves as an important organ not only in receiving sound, but also in orientating the neonate in relatio…
Fordham, Jung and the self
This paper is about Fordham's contribution to Jung's studies on the self. It opens with the epistemological dilemmas inherent in the subject, before moving on to an account of Fordham's research into the incompatible ways Jung used the term 'self'. There is a description of Fordham's model, which covers his concepts of the primary self, deintegration, reintegration, self objects, self representations, and individuation in infancy. There is a sect…
Conquered Populations in Early Islam
Explores the ways in which new Muslims of slave origins were integrated into early Islamic society Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020 Brings together three separate groups (freedmen, slave women and the children of enslaved mothers) as parts of the same prism of unfreedom Recovers enslaved women's voices and treats them as important agents of historical change Combines close textual analysis with large-scale demographic study to provide mult…
The ‘self’ in analytical psychology
This paper concerns the self as Fordham came to conceive it after a conceptual analysis of Jung's use of the term. Fordham identified a contradiction in Jung's usage, and resolved it by reserving 'self' for a definition of the psychosomatic entirety of the individual, and using a separate term for referring to expressions of the self in human experience (e.g. symbols). Fordham tentatively suggested that the latter be termed the 'central archetype…
Reflections on research and learning from the patient
Over three decades ago, John Bowlby argued for psychoanalysis to seek beyond its own parameters if it was to maintain its claim to be a science. Since then there has been a wealth of relevant research from various fields. While this has been instrumental in the development of my own work, this paper concerns learning from the patient. The paper begins with a premise: interpretative analytic work requires three-dimensionality (self, other and obje…
Developmental aspects of trauma and traumatic aspects of development
In this paper I try to show that inherent in healthy development are emotional experiences that are the stuff of trauma. Failure to reintegrate these experiences means that they can serve as a resonating board for difficulties in later life, adding to their traumatic impact. Focusing on global changes that occur at the end of the first year, I exemplify these developments with an infant observation and show how a six-year-old boy's failure to int…
End notes
Following the publication in this journal of two of Fordham's unpublished papers selected by James Astor (2010, 55, 5), the editors have asked me to select a further two. I have chosen two clinical pieces, one clinical notes and the other notes that refine his previous thinking, which Fordham wrote at the end of his life. Both are examples of the way Fordham continued throughout his analytic work to turn to patients as his primary source of learn…
Conjugating the self
States of identity
This paper examines the Jungian concept of identity and distinguishes it from projective identification and participation mystique which also refer to non‐differentiation between self and object but involve projective mechanisms. Clinical work by Fordham and a psychoanalytic infant observation are used to illustrate early perceptual operations defined by experimental researches. These operations are understood to be expressions of the primary sel…
On matters of mind and body
In this paper the author considers Descartes' place in current thinking about the mind-body dilemma. The premise here is that in the history of ideas, the questions posed can be as significant as the answers acquired. Descartes' paramount question was 'How do we determine certainty?' and his pursuit of an answer led to cogito ergo sum. His discovery simultaneously raised the question whether mind is separate from or unified with the body. Some wh…
The Primary Self and Related Concepts in Jung, Klein, and Isaacs
In this paper, I have tried to re-examine my understanding of early psychic processes and contents. This has involved comparing and contrasting the ideas of Jung, Klein, Isaacs, and Fordham, with an emphasis on the contributions of Fordham. Fordham's postulate of a primary self that deintegrates and reintegrates is a model of the mind that combines structure and dynamics, and which, moreover, helps to describe what is observed in infant observati…
Childhood Deafness
The primary self postulated by Fordham draws upon both psychic and bodily structures to unfold needs and potentials in the external world. In this paper I have presented some thoughts on the role of the ear and of hearing in bringing the neonate into relationship with its mother and broader environment in early deintegrative processes. The ear serves as an important organ not only in receiving sound, but also in orientating the neonate in relatio…
Childhood Deafness
The primary self postulated by Fordham draws upon both psychic and bodily structures to unfold needs and potentials in the external world. In this paper I have presented some thoughts on the role of the ear and of hearing in bringing the neonate into relationship with its mother and broader environment in early deintegrative processes. The ear serves as an important organ not only in receiving sound, but also in orientating the neonate in relatio…
The Primary Self and Related Concepts in Jung, Klein, and Isaacs
In this paper, I have tried to re-examine my understanding of early psychic processes and contents. This has involved comparing and contrasting the ideas of Jung, Klein, Isaacs, and Fordham, with an emphasis on the contributions of Fordham. Fordham's postulate of a primary self that deintegrates and reintegrates is a model of the mind that combines structure and dynamics, and which, moreover, helps to describe what is observed in infant observati…
Out of the Mouths of Babes
States of identity
This paper examines the Jungian concept of identity and distinguishes it from projective identification and participation mystique which also refer to non‐differentiation between self and object but involve projective mechanisms. Clinical work by Fordham and a psychoanalytic infant observation are used to illustrate early perceptual operations defined by experimental researches. These operations are understood to be expressions of the primary sel…
Developmental aspects of trauma and traumatic aspects of development
In this paper I try to show that inherent in healthy development are emotional experiences that are the stuff of trauma. Failure to reintegrate these experiences means that they can serve as a resonating board for difficulties in later life, adding to their traumatic impact. Focusing on global changes that occur at the end of the first year, I exemplify these developments with an infant observation and show how a six-year-old boy's failure to int…
Fordham, Jung and the self
This paper is about Fordham's contribution to Jung's studies on the self. It opens with the epistemological dilemmas inherent in the subject, before moving on to an account of Fordham's research into the incompatible ways Jung used the term 'self'. There is a description of Fordham's model, which covers his concepts of the primary self, deintegration, reintegration, self objects, self representations, and individuation in infancy. There is a sect…
The ‘self’ in analytical psychology
This paper concerns the self as Fordham came to conceive it after a conceptual analysis of Jung's use of the term. Fordham identified a contradiction in Jung's usage, and resolved it by reserving 'self' for a definition of the psychosomatic entirety of the individual, and using a separate term for referring to expressions of the self in human experience (e.g. symbols). Fordham tentatively suggested that the latter be termed the 'central archetype…
Conjugating the self
Transcendent function or group dysfunction? Comments on ‘Transcendence, transmission and transformation
The Foundations of Islamic Society as Expressed by the Qur'anic Term mawlā
This article posits that the Qur'anic term mawlā (pl. mawālī) is crucial for understanding the foundations of the Islamic community; the term designates those bonds of help and cooperation that united the earliest umma as a functional faith community. To demonstrate the significance of the term mawlā in the Qur'an, this article combines two distinct methodologies. First, it shows how the word mawlā relates to other variations of the Arabic root w…
End notes
Following the publication in this journal of two of Fordham's unpublished papers selected by James Astor (2010, 55, 5), the editors have asked me to select a further two. I have chosen two clinical pieces, one clinical notes and the other notes that refine his previous thinking, which Fordham wrote at the end of his life. Both are examples of the way Fordham continued throughout his analytic work to turn to patients as his primary source of learn…
Reflections on research and learning from the patient
Over three decades ago, John Bowlby argued for psychoanalysis to seek beyond its own parameters if it was to maintain its claim to be a science. Since then there has been a wealth of relevant research from various fields. While this has been instrumental in the development of my own work, this paper concerns learning from the patient. The paper begins with a premise: interpretative analytic work requires three-dimensionality (self, other and obje…
Introduction to three clinical papers
Michael Fordham and the Journal of Analytical Psychology
This short paper was presented to a conference in honour of the 60(th) year of the JAP and was one of others that acknowledged the contribution of Michael Fordham. The subtitle refers to the paper's overview of Fordham's published oeuvre and the particular place of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, for which he was the founding editor. Fordham's contribution to a Jungian-based model of development is discussed, with reference to his papers in…
The Politics and Culture of an Umayyad Tribe
Every scholar of early Islamic history knows that Arab tribes were integral to the success of the Islamic conquests and the functioning of the Umayyad caliphate (661–750 ce). However, scholars have largely neglected to study these tribes in depth; the Syrian tribes in particular have suffered from a dearth of scholarly interest. This neglect stems partly from the frustrations of the early Islamic sources, which were mostly written by Iraqi author…
Response to Roger Brooke's critique of ‘On matters of mind and body
On matters of mind and body
In this paper the author considers Descartes' place in current thinking about the mind-body dilemma. The premise here is that in the history of ideas, the questions posed can be as significant as the answers acquired. Descartes' paramount question was 'How do we determine certainty?' and his pursuit of an answer led to cogito ergo sum. His discovery simultaneously raised the question whether mind is separate from or unified with the body. Some wh…
Possessed by the Right Hand
The last several years have seen an explosion of scholarly interest in slavery in the Islamic world and other global contexts. Recent contributions to this field include Jonathan A.C. Brown’s Slavery in Islam and Mary Ann Fay’s edited volume, Slavery in the Islamic World; a new edition of Orlando Patterson’s seminal Slavery and Social Death has also recently been published with a new preface. With his ambitious and erudite monograph, Possessed by…
Conquered Populations in Early Islam
Explores the ways in which new Muslims of slave origins were integrated into early Islamic society Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020 Brings together three separate groups (freedmen, slave women and the children of enslaved mothers) as parts of the same prism of unfreedom Recovers enslaved women's voices and treats them as important agents of historical change Combines close textual analysis with large-scale demographic study to provide mult…
Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257, written by Taef El-Azhari
Race, gender and slavery in early Islamicate history
Slavery was practiced in parts of the Islamicate world from the 7th through 21st centuries. Until the late 20th century, many authors claimed that Islamicate slavery was relatively benign and free from racism. However, recent scholarship has found evidence of race‐thinking in Islamicate history—particularly anti‐Black racism and an association between Blackness and enslavement—tracing back at least to the ninth‐century CE. Scholars still contest …
Tree of Pearls
Almost any survey of medieval Islamic history will cover the figure of Shajar al-Durr (“Tree of Pearls” in Arabic), who was one of the fewwomen in Islamic history to hold the title of Sultan, and the only one to do so who began her life as a slave. She is also well known as a pivotal figure in Egyptian politics, as she marked the transition between Saladin’s Ayyubid dynasty (1171–1250 CE) and the Mamluk sultanate (1250–1517 CE). However, works th…
Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
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