Summary, Questions, & Quotes
Pandolfo (2010) theorizes the psychoanalytic and spiritual effects of collective trauma and violence, through the work of Fanon and contextual research in Morocco. Her writing raises valuable questions about how collective violence and trauma penetrate the psyche/soul. “I pursue this question of ‘soul murder’, and its implication for a possible ethics of struggle (jihad/jihad al-nafs) through an analytic description of the therapeutic practice of a Moroccan Imam, not a traditional healer, indeed also not a Sufi, but an active member in the local Islamic revival” (31).