When Karl Lueger, Vienna’s anti-Semitic mayor (1897-1910), was asked how his extreme anti-Jewish views squared with the fact that some of his friends were Jews, he replied, “I decide who is a Jew.” The struggle against Jew hatred is too important for it to be hijacked by official Israel in
Lo Stato di Israele si è da tempo arrogato il diritto di decidere chi è un Ebreo. Ora i nazionalisti stanno cercando di dettare al mondo la definizione solipsistica di chi è un antisemita. link to the article in Italian>>
Has the approach of Israel’s younger analysts been determined, or reinforced, by a political culture that stresses the idea that all evil comes from outside? On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Israel’s Psychoanalytic Society. read full article>> on Haaretz >>
Try to hold a serious discussion about the interconnection between the “political” and the “psychic” – such as the corrupting consequences of the occupation and the oppression of the Palestinians on the psyche and sexuality of the country’s citizens; or on the connection between state-sponsored violence and the violence on
A recent statement by cognitive scientists on recovered memory casts misleading doubts on the very underpinnings of Freudian psychology, while undermining the struggle against sexual violence perpetrated on children. read full article>> read on Haaretz>>
What Israeli democracy needs is not a new government, but educators like Herzl Schubert who was seen taking part in the weekly demonstration at Nabi Saleh last month. full article>> article in Haaretz>>
Paper read in a conference on Antisemitism that was subsequently published in Czech>>
Only ‘involuntary treatment’ of Israeli rejectionism, executed with sincere concern for the country’s fate, will demonstrate to its citizens that there is no correct way to live an incorrect life. read full article>> read on Haaretz>>
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
History, regrettably, no longer holds its breath when Israel goes to the polls. In the 20 years that have passed since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israel appears to have relinquished the realization of the Zionist dream in its universal historical sense. Instead, it is striding, eyes wide