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Freud in Zion [electronic resource] : Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Karnac Books, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781849409667 (electronic bk.)
  • 1849409668 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Freud in Zion : Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish IdentityDDC classification:
  • 296.3/875 23
LOC classification:
  • BM538.P68 R65 2012eb
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Contents:
COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; PREFACE; Introduction: a costly dream; CHAPTER ONE The Freudians and the "new man" of the Zionist revolution; CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalytic pioneers and their discontents; CHAPTER THREE We've lost Berlin; CHAPTER FOUR Migration and interpretation; CHAPTER FIVE Homegrown psychoanalysis; CHAPTER SIX A psychoanalytic midrash; Epilogue: dynamite in the house; REFERENCES; INDEX.
Summary: Freud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this ground-breaking study psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution in a unique political and cultural context of war, immigration, ethnic tensions, colonial rule and nation building. Based on hundreds of hitherto unpublished documents, including many unpublished letters by Freud, this book integrates intellectual and social history to offer a moving and persuasive account of how psychoanalysis permeated pop.
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COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; PREFACE; Introduction: a costly dream; CHAPTER ONE The Freudians and the "new man" of the Zionist revolution; CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalytic pioneers and their discontents; CHAPTER THREE We've lost Berlin; CHAPTER FOUR Migration and interpretation; CHAPTER FIVE Homegrown psychoanalysis; CHAPTER SIX A psychoanalytic midrash; Epilogue: dynamite in the house; REFERENCES; INDEX.

Freud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this ground-breaking study psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution in a unique political and cultural context of war, immigration, ethnic tensions, colonial rule and nation building. Based on hundreds of hitherto unpublished documents, including many unpublished letters by Freud, this book integrates intellectual and social history to offer a moving and persuasive account of how psychoanalysis permeated pop.

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