Moustafa Safouan

Moustafa or Moustapha Safouan (Arabic: مصطفى صفوان, 17 May 1921–7 November 2020) was an Egyptian psychoanalyst.

Born in Alexandria, Safouan was the son of a teacher and trade unionist who was imprisoned for several years for his political activity in 1924.

After entering analysis with Marc Schlumberger, he underwent a training analysis with Jacques Lacan in 1949.

He attended Lacan's seminars in the early 1950s, though was forced to stay in Egypt for several years after Nasser came to power.

Returning to France in 1959, he was sent by the Lacanian Société Française as a training analyst to Strasbourg.