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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2015
• VerfasserIn: Aron, Lewis,; Henik, Libby,
• MitwirkendeR: Aron, Lewis,; Eshel, Ofra,; Friedman, Cheryl,; Furst, Annette,; Goldstein, Cheryl,; Gradwohl Pisano, Nirit,; Halevi Spero, Moshe,; Henik, Libby,; Kaniel, Ruth Kara-Ivanov,; Kolbrener, William,; Kradin, Richard,; Laub, Dori,; Rotenberg, Menorah Lafayette,; Slochower, Joyce,; Zornberg, Avivah,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. DESIRE, LOVE AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF -- Rashi and Desire: Reading Rashi’s Reading of Genesis 39 -- “The Impressive Caesura” and “New Beginning” in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Mystical Experience—Birth, Creation and Transformation -- On Abandoning Aristotle: Love in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Philosophy -- Bewilderments: The Story of the Spies -- 2. TRAUMA AND BREAKDOWN -- The “Hearing Heart” and the “Voice” of Breakdown -- “Have You Seen My Servant Job?” A Psychological Approach to Suffering -- On the Use of Selected Lead Words in Tracing the Trajectory of the Transmission of Transgenerational Trauma in the Genesis Ancestral Saga -- 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 -- Shadows of the Unseen Grief -- Across a Lifetime: On the Dynamics of Commemorative Ritual -- 4. HOLOCAUST, INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION AND MEMORY -- The Testimonial Process as a Reversal of the Traumatic Shutdown of Narrative and Symbolization -- Holocaust Memories and their Transmission -- In Bed with a Collaborator: Reenactments of Historical Trauma by a Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors -- Contributors -- Index