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“It is a feeling which he would like to call a sensation of “eternity,” a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded—as it were, “oceanic.” This feeling, he adds, is a purely subjective fact, not an article of faith; it brings with it no assurance of personal immortality.” Sigmund Freud (Introduction to Civilization and its Discontents. Referring to letter from Rolland) “ Arabic readers would have been familiar with through the two adaptations of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex that appeared in 1949 by playwrights Tawfiq al-Hakim and Ali Ahmad Bakathir, as well as the first scholarly Arabic translation in 1939 by Egyptian belle lettrist Taha Husayn. Egyptian dramatist al-Hakim’s version is … [Read more...]