Confession and Psychoanalysis

Spiro Jabbour’s enigmatic exploration of the resonances between the Eastern Christian science of the soul and psychoanalysis, now in annotated English translation

Confession and Psychoanalysis, written by Spiro Jabbour—the prolific Syrian monastic, scholar, and translator—offers a speculative formulation of mystical ethics in the aftermath of the postcolonial loss of tradition. Jabbour reads Freud’s theories of the drive, transference, and the unconscious through Orthodox Christian writings...