A Psychoanalytic History of the JewsFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1996 - 850 pages A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews is an interdisciplinary rewriting and reinterpretation of four thousand years of Jewish history. It integrates insights from history, archaeology, biblical scholarship, anthropology, sociology and Jewish studies with those of psychoanalysis to achieve a deep understanding of Jewish history. The main thrust of this work is the application of psychoanalytic insight to Jewish history. This includes the evolution of the Hebrew religion as a projective response to the inner conflicts produced by the human family; the sociopsychological development of the Israelite kingdoms in Canaan; the fascinating duality of Jewish life in the "Diaspora"; and the emotional ties of the Jews to their idealized motherland from the Babylonian exile to modern political Zionism. |
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... early Hebrew tribes were probably donkey - caravaneering Semitic nomads . Their religion was at first probably totemistic and animistic , later polytheistic . After the Hebrew tribes who left Egypt joined in a tribal confederacy ...
... early Hebrew tribes were probably donkey - caravaneering Semitic nomads . Their religion was at first probably totemistic and animistic , later polytheistic . After the Hebrew tribes who left Egypt joined in a tribal confederacy ...
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... early mother , " that is , the Great Mother of our early infancy , who remains in our unconscious mind , has been studied by several scholars ( Volkan 1979 , 1988 ; Mack 1983 ; Stein 1987 ; Falk 1974 , 1983 , 1987a ) . It is no accident ...
... early mother , " that is , the Great Mother of our early infancy , who remains in our unconscious mind , has been studied by several scholars ( Volkan 1979 , 1988 ; Mack 1983 ; Stein 1987 ; Falk 1974 , 1983 , 1987a ) . It is no accident ...
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... early scholars to apply psychoanalysis to Judaism were Reik ( 1923 ) and Cronbach ( 1931-32 ) . Both dwelt very heavily on sexual symbolism and on the Oedipus complex , Sigmund Freud's key preoccupations . The psychoanalytic study of ...
... early scholars to apply psychoanalysis to Judaism were Reik ( 1923 ) and Cronbach ( 1931-32 ) . Both dwelt very heavily on sexual symbolism and on the Oedipus complex , Sigmund Freud's key preoccupations . The psychoanalytic study of ...
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... early Hebrews knew three conti- nents : Asia , Africa , and Europe . But the Hebrews did not call them by those Greek names . Hebrew myth had Father Noah " beget " three sons : Shem , Ham , and Japheth ( Gen. 6:10 ) . Shem and Ham ...
... early Hebrews knew three conti- nents : Asia , Africa , and Europe . But the Hebrews did not call them by those Greek names . Hebrew myth had Father Noah " beget " three sons : Shem , Ham , and Japheth ( Gen. 6:10 ) . Shem and Ham ...
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... early civilizations . The Sumerians , whose civilization was the oldest written one in the world , were a non - Semitic Indo - Aryan people who probably came to the Middle East during the fourth millennium B.c.e. from India or Iran ...
... early civilizations . The Sumerians , whose civilization was the oldest written one in the world , were a non - Semitic Indo - Aryan people who probably came to the Middle East during the fourth millennium B.c.e. from India or Iran ...
Contents
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From Child Sacrifice to Circumcision | 52 |
Canaan Greece and Egypt | 65 |
Moses and Monotheism | 78 |
Tribal Confederacy | 91 |
Franks and Saracens | 384 |
Servi Camerae Nostrae | 398 |
Mysticism and Union with the Mother | 412 |
Crusaders and Kabbalists | 429 |
Transgressions and Fantasies | 444 |
Adapting to Annihilation | 453 |
Strategies of Psychological Survival | 466 |
Disputations and Inquisitions | 485 |
Judges Prophets and Kings | 103 |
The ShortLived Union | 115 |
YahwehEl versus Baal | 128 |
The Personal Roots of Religious Revolution | 141 |
Tragic Queens | 154 |
National Suicide | 166 |
Psychotic Prophets? | 179 |
Family versus Nation | 191 |
Egyptians Greeks and Other Jews | 205 |
The Myth of Maccabean Independence | 226 |
Civil War in Judaea | 240 |
Jews Greeks and Other Romans | 252 |
The Tragedy of Herod the Great | 263 |
Prelude to Christianity | 276 |
Christianity as Rebirth Fantasy | 289 |
Zealous Jewish SelfDestruction | 299 |
Messianism and the Inability to Mourn | 311 |
Jewish Mysticism and Martyrdom | 325 |
Living in the Past | 341 |
Franks and Jews | 357 |
Arabs Muslims and Jews | 371 |
Inquisitors and Messiahs | 507 |
Jewish Renaissance | 519 |
Jews Witches and the Devil | 532 |
Slavs Balts and Other Jews | 543 |
Mystical Messiahs and Fanatical Followers | 560 |
Pietists and Saints | 574 |
Napoléon and the Jews | 589 |
Revolution and Liberalization | 599 |
The Battle for the Jewish Self | 615 |
German Light Russian Darkness | 632 |
The Golden Land | 654 |
The Land of Zion | 667 |
Zionists Arabs and AntiSemites | 682 |
TwentiethCentury Hebrews | 688 |
Holocaust | 703 |
Israeli Paradoxes | 722 |
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