Entre los politólogos hay una tendencia a clasificar el suicidio―asesinato junto con otras formas convencionales de terror que, en mi opinión, reducen el análisis a su valor estratégico o pragmático. Esta puede ser una reacción razonable a las embarazosas “autopsias psíquicas” que realizan los psicólogos militares, en particular después del
The paper offers some thoughts on reading and teaching Freud, on translating Freud, on translation in general, and on a possible kinship between translation and the psychoanalytic process. My reading of Freud’s works, and the years I spent translating them into Hebrew and editing Hebrew editions of his writings, have
At the turn of the 19 Century, when the Freudian paradigm took its first steps toward becoming a modern amalgam of science and hermeneutics, history was considered the most established and instrumental discipline in man’s quest to endow his thinking and action with meaning. The kinship between the disciplines, which
A letter from Paula Heimann to her training analyst, Theodor Reik, written shortly before her emigration from Berlin to London, sheds light on some technical controversies and personal animosities that shaped psychoanalytic clinical discourse in the early 1930s, as well as on Heimann’s subsequent development as a clinician. A close reading of
Few chapters in the historiography of psychoanalysis are as densely packed with trans-cultural, ideological, institutional, and moral issues as the coming of psychoanalysis to Jewish Palestine – a geopolitical space which bears some of the deepest scars of twentieth-century European, and in particular German, history. From the historical as well
Between Technique and Ethic, Between Hermeneutics and Science: Freud’s right guess This paper reviews Freud’s papers on technique and reappraises them in light of contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. By sketching the historical background to these texts and by examining the dialectical tension between modern scientific and hermeneunicist currents within psychoanalysis the paper
Die Etabilierung der Psychoanalyse im Juedischen Palaestina/Israel The paper examines the interplay between Eastern and Central European intellectual traditions in the establishment of psychoanalysis in Palestine/Israel. Read full paper in German in Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse>>
Der vorliegende Beitrag enthält Überlegungen zur Lektüre, zur Lehre und zur Übersetzung des Freudschen Werks; ferner zum Übersetzen ganz allgemein und zu einer möglichen Verwandtschaft zwischen Übersetzung und analytischem Prozess. Read the paper as published in Psyche>>
The Psychoanalytic Movement and its first encounter with National Socialism in Hebrew The paper reconstructs and critically evaluates the history of the psychoanalytic movement in the years following the Nazi Party’s accession to power in Germany. The article highlights the first reactions of Sigmund Freud’s closest disciples to the course
Throbbing between Stars and Abyss: a Reconsideration of the Mood Swings in the life and work of the Poet Chaim Nachman Bialik MEKAROV (with Ariel Simkin) in Hebrew read full paper>>