Psychoanalyse des Islam

Whether as an everyday phenomenon like the prescribed veiling or in the violent form of terrorism - fundamentalist currents in Islam are on the rise. But how can the worldwide boom in Islamic extremism be explained beyond cultural struggles and relativistic patterns? In his groundbreaking study, which has long since become a standard work in English and French-speaking countries, Fethi Benslama interprets Islamism as a sign of the crisis of Islam in confrontation with sinful modernity : the pressure of suffering caused by the prohibition of lust leads to aggression towards ambivalence - even terror. Fethi Benslama fills a gap in Sigmund Freud's work: he explains the uneasiness in Muslim culture, analyses the founding myths and religious practices of Islam and points to the critical position of women as a source of fear.