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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... Mourn 311 23. Jewish Mysticism and Martyrdom 325 24. Living in the Past 341 25. Franks and Jews 357 26. Arabs , Muslims , and Jews 27. Franks and " Saracens " 28. Servi Camerae Nostrae 371 384 398 29. Mysticism and Union with the Mother ...
... Mourn 311 23. Jewish Mysticism and Martyrdom 325 24. Living in the Past 341 25. Franks and Jews 357 26. Arabs , Muslims , and Jews 27. Franks and " Saracens " 28. Servi Camerae Nostrae 371 384 398 29. Mysticism and Union with the Mother ...
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... mourn this terrible loss ( cf. Mitscherlich 1975 ) . During the Middle Ages a myth was propounded that the ten lost tribes of Israel dwelt in a blessed land beyond the mythical Sambation River . The name Babylon ( in Baylonian , Bab ...
... mourn this terrible loss ( cf. Mitscherlich 1975 ) . During the Middle Ages a myth was propounded that the ten lost tribes of Israel dwelt in a blessed land beyond the mythical Sambation River . The name Babylon ( in Baylonian , Bab ...
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... Mourning one's losses is essential to normal growth . Loewenstein ( 1951 : 160- 61 ) believed that the Jews have been in a " permanent state of mourning " since " the Great Destruction in 70 A.d. " In fact , the Jews could not mourn ...
... Mourning one's losses is essential to normal growth . Loewenstein ( 1951 : 160- 61 ) believed that the Jews have been in a " permanent state of mourning " since " the Great Destruction in 70 A.d. " In fact , the Jews could not mourn ...
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... mourn . I believe that the inability to mourn is the most important psychological issue in Jewish history and perhaps also in other peoples ' histories . I also suggest a view of Jewish mysticism as an expression of the yearnings for ...
... mourn . I believe that the inability to mourn is the most important psychological issue in Jewish history and perhaps also in other peoples ' histories . I also suggest a view of Jewish mysticism as an expression of the yearnings for ...
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... mourn being the dominant theme . When cautiously and discriminately applied , psychoanalysis can yield rich insights into Jewish history . I am aware that psychoanalytic explanations , involving as they do unconscious feelings and ...
... mourn being the dominant theme . When cautiously and discriminately applied , psychoanalysis can yield rich insights into Jewish history . I am aware that psychoanalytic explanations , involving as they do unconscious feelings and ...
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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