Confession and Psychoanalysis

Spiro Jabbour (Author) Spiro Jabbour was a scholar and hierodeacon in the Antiochian Orthodox Church. He was born in the Syrian town of Muzayraa in 1923 and died in 2018 at the Monastery of St. George, Deir al‐Harf.Aaron Frederick Eldridge (Translator) Aaron F. Eldridge is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His published work has appeared in Qui Parle, Diacritics, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

• A Note on the Translation ixList of Abbreviations xiiiTranslator’s Introduction xvThe Eulogy of Metropolitan Ephraim Kyriakos for the Funeral of Spiro Jabbour xliiiAuthor’s Preface to the First Edition xlvAuthor’s Preface to the Second Edition liii1 The Remembrance of Death 12 The Child Is a Person 83 Confession in the New Testament 10•Confession in church usage, 184 Confession in Psychoanalysis 215 The Sense of Guilt 29• 1. Ambivalence, 33• 2. Ambivalence of the spirit and the body, 55• 3. The sense of guilt, 58• 4. The sense of guilt and the spiritual life, 626 The Confession of Transgressions 65• How do we confess? 71• How does the spiritual elder guide the monastic? 75• Of what kind is this war? 837 The Essence of Monastic Confession 94• The Hesychasts, 1198 The Question of Psychosomatic Medicine, Philosophically Considered 1219 Reiteration 130• Confession for churches in the world, 135• Confession and repentance, 137• Confession and communion, 137• The prayer of absolution, 138• Objection, 140• Confession at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, 14210 Repentance and Joy 147• Excursus, 149• Supplication, 15011 A Historical-Geographical Fragment 152• 1. The Current of Pseudo-Dionysius, 154• 2. The Current of Makarios, 156Glossary 159Works Cited 163Index 177

"Confession and Psychoanalysis is a much-needed tonic for our world-weary souls. In this profound book, Spiro Jabbour speaks to multiple traditions of thought and practice - Orthodox Christian, Islamic, and psychoanalytic. Magnificently introduced, translated, and annotated by Aaron Eldridge, Jabbour approaches postcolonial destitution and the political devastation of our uncanny present through mystical ethics. A must read for all interested in theology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and askesis." - Omnia El Shakry, author of The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt