Answering a Question with a Question : Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought (Vol. II). A Tradition of Inquiry / Lewis Aron, Libby Henik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aron, Lewis, Author.

Henik, Libby, Author.

Series:

Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Psychoanalysis and religion.

Jewish philosophy.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Inquiry, questioning, and wonder are defining features of both psychoanalysis and the Jewish tradition. The question invites inquiry, analysis, discussion, debate, multiple meanings, and interpretation that continues across the generations. If questions and inquiry are the mainstay of Jewish scholarship, then it should not be surprising that they would be central to the psychoanalytic method developed by Sigmund Freud. The themes taken up in this book are universal: trauma, traumatic reenactment, intergenerational transmission of trauma, love, loss, mourning, ritual-these subjects are of particular relevance and concern within Jewish thought and the history of the Jewish people, and they raise questions of great relevance to psychoanalysis both theoretically and clinically. In Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought: A Tradition of Inquiry, Editors, Aron and Henik, have brought together an international collection of contemporary scholars and clinicians to address the interface and mutual influence of Jewish thought and modern psychoanalysis, two traditions of inquiry.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Aron, Lewis / Henik, Libby

1. DESIRE, LOVE AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF

Rashi and Desire: Reading Rashi's Reading of Genesis 39 / Goldstein, Cheryl

"The Impressive Caesura" and "New Beginning" in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Mystical Experience-Birth, Creation and Transformation / Kaniel, Ruth Kara-Ivanov

On Abandoning Aristotle: Love in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Philosophy / Kolbrener, William

Bewilderments: The Story of the Spies / Zornberg, Avivah

2. TRAUMA AND BREAKDOWN

The "Hearing Heart" and the "Voice" of Breakdown / Eshel, Ofra

"Have You Seen My Servant Job?" A Psychological Approach to Suffering / Kradin, Richard

On the Use of Selected Lead Words in Tracing the Trajectory of the Transmission of Transgenerational Trauma in the Genesis Ancestral Saga / Rotenberg, Menorah Lafayette

3. MOURNING, RITUALS AND MEMORY

The "Coat of Many Colors" as Linking Object: A Nodal Moment in the Narrative of Jacob's Bereavement for Joseph / Halevi Spero, Moshe

Shadows of the Unseen Grief / Friedman, Cheryl

Across a Lifetime: On the Dynamics of Commemorative Ritual / Slochower, Joyce

4. HOLOCAUST, INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION AND MEMORY

The Testimonial Process as a Reversal of the Traumatic Shutdown of Narrative and Symbolization / Laub, Dori

Holocaust Memories and their Transmission / Furst, Annette

In Bed with a Collaborator: Reenactments of Historical Trauma by a Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors / Gradwohl Pisano, Nirit

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

Other Format:

Print version: Answering a question with a question. Volume II, A tradition of inquiry.

ISBN:

1-61811-515-4

OCLC:

1135579843