The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

In The Arabic Freud (Princeton University Press), Omnia El Shakry *02 challenges the notion that there is a strict divide between psychoanalysis and Islam by looking at postwar thinkers in Egypt who blended psychoanalysis with concepts from classical Islam. El Shakry writes the first in-depth text on psychoanalysis in Egypt and how this new “science of he soul” is inextricably linked to Islam and mysticism.