Full Description
Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and change-within-continuity that epitomize these disciplines.
The authors of this volume explore the cross-disciplinary connections between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought, while seeking out the resonance of new meanings, to exemplify the uncanny similarities that exist between ancient Rabbinic methods of interpretation and contemporary psychoanalytic theory and methodology, particularly the centrality of the question and the deconstruction of narrative. In doing so, this collaboration addresses the bi-directional influence between, and the relevance of, the Jewish interpretive tradition and psychoanalysis to provide readers with renewed insight into key topics such as Biblical text and midrash, religious traditions, trauma, gender, history, clinical work and the legacies of the Holocaust on psychoanalytic theory.
Creating an intimate environment for interdisciplinary dialogue, this is an essential book for students, scholars and clinicians alike, who seek to understand the continued significance of the multiple connections between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought.
Contents
Introduction Part 1: Clinical Presentation 1. "You are Requested to Raise Your Eyes and See": The Reconstruction of Religious and Psychoanalytic Belief during the Analytic Encounter 2. God at an Impasse: Devotion, Social Justice and the Psychoanalytic Subject 3. This Bread Is Not My Body: Biblical Manna as a Psychoanalytic Paradigm 4. God's Influence on My Psychoanalytic Vision and Values Part 2: Biblical Commentary 5. In the Beginning, There Was... Envy 6. The Unthinkable Satanic: A Psychoanalytic Insight into the Shofar as Sympton 7. Abraham Bound and Unbound: The Akedah Part 3: Historical Content 8. Trauma, Gender and the Stories of Jewish Women: The Other Within 9. Fearing the Theoretical Other: The Legacy of Kohut's Erasure of the Analyst's Trauma 10. Give Me Permission to Remember: Judith S. Kestenberg and the Memory of the Holocaust 11. Freud's Moses, Schoenberg's Moses: Two Expressions of Trauma
