Full Description
In the Jewish tradition, it is incumbent upon every generation to attempt to find meaning in its history. Meaning is co-created within the context of the inter-subjective field of a meeting of minds. Psychoanalysis, in some respects like the Jewish tradition from which it emerged, represents a body of thought about man’s relation to himself and to others, and places great value on the influence of memory, narrative, and history in creating meaning within the dyadic relationship of analyst and patient. In Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought, editors Aron and Henik have brought together an international collection of contemporary scholars and clinicians to address the interface and the mutual influence of Jewish thought and modern psychoanalysis.
Contents
Acknowledgement. Preface. Introduction. 1. HISTORICAL CONTEXT. Psychoanalysis and Judaism in Context. 2. CLINICAL PRESENTATION. The Jew for Jesus and Other Analytic Explorations of God. Dreams and Authoritative Knowledge: Bridging Judaism and Psychoanalysis. Holding the Mourner: Jewish Ritual through a Psychoanalytic Lens. Hearing "Thou Shall Not Kill" When All the Evidence is to the Contrary: Psychoanalysis, Enactment, and Jewish Ethics. 3. BIBLICAL COMMENTARY. A Freudian and a Kleinian Reading of the Midrash on the Garden of Eden Narrative. Transformations in the 'Mental Apparatus of Dreaming' as Depicted in the Biblical Story of Joseph. 'Let Me see That Good Land:' the Story of a Human Life. Rebecca's Veil: A Weave of Conflict and Agency. 4. THEORETICAL PAPERS. "Demand a Speaking Part!": The Character of the Jewish Father. The Problem of Desire: Psychoanalysis as a Jewish Wisdom Tradition. "Going Out to Meet You, I Found You Coming Toward me":Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 'Foreignness is the Quality Which the Jews and One's Own Instincts Have in Common': Anti-Semitism, Identity and the Other. A Burning World, An Absent God:Midrash, Hermeneutics, and Relational Psychoanalysis. Contributors. Index.
