Freud in Zion : psychoanalysis and the making of modern Jewish identity / Eran J. Rolnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rolnik, Eran J.

Series:

HIST

HIST ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zionism.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Freud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this ground-breaking study psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution in a unique political and cultural context of war, immigration, ethnic tensions, colonial rule and nation building. Based on hundreds of hitherto unpublished documents, including many unpublished letters by Freud, this book integrates intellectual and social history to offer a moving and persuasive account of how psychoanalysis permeated popular and intellectual discourse in the emerging Jewish state.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; PREFACE; Introduction: a costly dream; CHAPTER ONE The Freudians and the "new man" of the Zionist revolution; CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalytic pioneers and their discontents; CHAPTER THREE We've lost Berlin; CHAPTER FOUR Migration and interpretation; CHAPTER FIVE Homegrown psychoanalysis; CHAPTER SIX A psychoanalytic midrash; Epilogue: dynamite in the house; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91400-8

9780429896959

0-429-89977-7

0-429-47500-4

1-280-12572-1

9786613529589

1-84940-966-8

9780429475009

OCLC:

784885689