ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the general supposition that psychoanalytic concepts cannot go together with the essential ideas of Islam. A glance at the history, however, reveals that Christianity and Judaism had their own struggles with fanaticism. Islam, as a new recurrent religion, seems to be struggling with the same problems which other religions have mostly but not entirely overcome. It seems to us, at the manifest content level, Islam is considered to be a religion that inherently contradicts the psychoanalytic principle, but the latent content is about how the current political culture is transforming Islam. In other words, does Islam function as a simple residue of cultural and political issues or as latent content, Whose associations are important for interpreting the dreams of Islam, Islamophobia and culture of Muslims? In this regard, the present chapter will investigate the interaction and dialogue between psychoanalysis and Islam in Iran as an Islamic country with its various subcultures.
