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Book SynopsisInquiry, 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.
Trade Review“
Answering a Question with a Question is for those who want to understand the covered topics from a psychoanalytic perspective. It is recommended for academic collections and other collections with readers interested in the confluence of Jewish sources and psychology.” -- Daniel D. Stuhlman * AJL Reviews, Volume VI. No. 1 (February/March 2016) *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Lewis Aron and Libby Henik
1. DESIRE, LOVE AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF
Rashi and Desire: Reading Rashi’s Reading of Genesis 39
Cheryl Goldstein
“The Impressive Caesura” and “New Beginning” in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Mystical Experience—Birth, Creation and Transformation
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
On Abandoning Aristotle: Love in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Philosophy
William Kolbrener
Bewilderments: The Story of the Spies
Avivah Zornberg
2. TRAUMA AND BREAKDOWN
The “Hearing Heart” and the “Voice” of Breakdown
Ofra Eshel
“Have You Seen My Servant Job?” A Psychological Approach to Suffering
Richard Kradin
On the Use of Selected Lead Words in Tracing the Trajectory of the Transmission of Transgenerational Trauma in the Genesis Ancestral Saga
Menorah Lafayette Rotenberg
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
Moshe Halevi Spero
Shadows of the Unseen Grief
Cheryl Friedman
Across a Lifetime: On the Dynamics of Commemorative Ritual
Joyce Slochower
4. HOLOCAUST, INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION AND MEMORY
The Testimonial Process as a Reversal of the Traumatic Shutdown of Narrative and Symbolization
Dori Laub
Holocaust Memories and their Transmission
Annette Furst
In Bed with a Collaborator: Reenactments of Historical Trauma by a Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors
Nirit Gradwohl Pisano
Contributors
Index
