Moustafa or Moustapha Safouan (, 17 May 1921–7 November 2020) was an Egyptian

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Life

Born in

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, Safouan was the son of a teacher and trade unionist who was imprisoned for several years for his political activity in 1924. After studying philosophy in Alexandria, and unable to gain a place to study at

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in the aftermath of the war, he went to

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to study philosophy in 1946. After entering analysis with Marc Schlumberger, he underwent a training analysis with

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in 1949. He attended Lacan's seminars in the early 1950s, though was forced to stay in Egypt for several years after

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came to power. Returning to France in 1959, he was sent by the Lacanian

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as a training analyst to

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.Interview of Moustapha Safouan
by

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, www.zamyn.org. Accessed 23 April 2012 His book ''Why are the Arabs Not Free'' argues that Arabic culture and politics are held back by the lack of regard given to vernacular Arabics. Safouan died on 7 November 2020. He was 99 years old.وداعا مصطفى صفوان... لاكان العرب

Works

* ''Le structuralisme en psychanalyse'', 1968 * ''Études sur l'Œdipe: introduction à une théorie du sujet'', 1974 * ''La sexualité féminine dans la doctrine freudienne'', 1976 * ''L'échec du principe du plaisir'', 1979. Translated by Martin Thom as ''Pleasure and being: hedonism, from a psychoanalytic point of view'', 1983. * ''Jacques Lacan et la question de la formation des analystes'', 1983. Translated by

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as ''Jacques Lacan and the question of psychoanalytic training'', 1999 * ''La parole ou la mort: comment une société humaine est-elle possible?'', 1993. Translated by Martin Thom, with an introduction by

, as ''Speech or death? Language as social order: a psychoanalytic study'', 2002. * ''Four lessons of psychoanalysis'', 2004 * ''Why are the Arabs not Free? the politics of writing'', 2007 * ''La Civilisation Post-oedipidienne'', 2017

References

External links

* Moustapha Safouan
On the Formation of the Psychoanalyst
November 2003 * Moustapha Safouan
Questions Concerning Feminine Sexuality
16 October 2004 {{DEFAULTSORT:Safouan, Moustapha 1921 births 2020 deaths Egyptian psychiatrists French psychoanalysts Analysands of Jacques Lacan People from Alexandria Egyptian expatriates in France