The conceptual affinities and historical convergences between psychoanalysis and Islamic philosophy

Henry Clements discusses the conceptual affinities and historical convergences between psychoanalysis and Islamic philosophy in the Los Angeles Review of Books. He references the Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi’s account of creation, noting that when God created Adam, there was a surplus of the clay used to create the palm tree, which is described as Adam’s sister, and that this creation also left behind a remainder the size of a sesame.