Centers of power : the convergence of psychoanalysis and Kabbalah / Joseph H. Berke and Stanley Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berke, Joseph H.

Contributor:

Schneider, S. (Stanley)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Cábala.

Cabala.

Cábala (Title).

Physical Description:

ix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, [2008]

Summary:

Kabbalah and psychoanalysis are conceptions about the nature of reality. The former is over two thousand years old. The latter was formalized less than a hundred years ago. Nonetheless they are parallel journeys of discovery that have forever altered not only what we see, but the very nature of seeing itself. The domain of Kabbalah is the spiritual and material macrocosm. In contrast, the concern of psychoanalysis is the microcosm, the innermost recesses of the human mind. However, both are convergent and complementary theories. Kabbalah asserts "as above so below," meaning that the Godhead, the source of everything, is reflected in the smallest details of existence. Similarly, psychoanalysis traces the evolution from "inner objects" to family feuds and social fields. Centers of Power explores these convergences and divergences, complementarities and conflicts between Kabbalah and psychoanalysis, in order to amplify their impact and unlock the power of these two disciplines to enhance mankind's understanding of reality.

Contents:

Reality, worlds and universes

The self and the soul

Will, free will, determinism and motivation

The way of the great dragon : good and evil, life and death

The container and the contained

Intimate relations : from infant to adult

Faces, guises and roles : the Partzufim

The language of creation

States of mind

Opposites

Nothingness and narcissism

Repairing worlds : reparation and Tikkun.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.

ISBN:

9780765705006

0765705001

9780765705013

076570501X

OCLC:

164802923