Psychoanalysis and its Doctors
Review of Shlomo Mendelovitch The Social Order of Multiple Selves: Psychoanalysis after the Post-modenism Read review in Hebrew on Haaretz Review of Books>>
Freudians and their Truth
Review of Aner Govrin’s Between Abstinence and Seduction: From Positivism to Post-modernism in American Psychoanalyis published in Hebrew>>
A Brush with the Law: Freud and Hans Kelsen
Much has been said about the intellectual ferment that characterized late 19 century and early 20 century Vienna. Of particular interest are the intersections between the various circles that operated in Vienna at that time. Having done some work on two of the most radical currents that operated in Vienna,
Psychoanalysis, History, Memory
The 20. Century has witnessed the rise and fall of psychoanalysis and its utilisation in social theory and in the humanities. The course will examine the conditions which shaped the acceptance of psychoanalysis in the humanities, in particular amongst historians, and in the social sciences. link to TAU program for
Dying Together
Dying Together: Towards a Psychoanalytic Understanding of Political Self-Sacrifice The paper delineates a conceptual framework by which a historical- social phenomenon such as suicide terrorism could be understood in terms of its psychological meaning. It offers few psychoanalytically informed observations on the role of trauma and on the psychic dynamics
Civilisation and its Cultural Discontents
It’s time to eliminate the tacit agreement that says political assets are under the control of the right, while the left controls assets of culture and the mind. read full article on Haaretz>> get PDF>>
Psychoanalysis in Israel: Beyond the Trauma Principle
Keynote paper in the meeting of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society to mark its 80 Anniversary view lecture in Hebrew>>
Reading Freud: Between Clinic and Culture
The Seminar will offer a close reading of Freud’s major texts in which he developed and applied the idea of unconscious mental activity. Our cross section in the Freudian oeuvre will include both clinical papers and papers in which he applied his thinking to socio-cultural analysis. The second part of
History and the Unconscious: The place of trauma in the development of psychoanalysis in Israel
Admittedly, there is something uncanny about anti-Semitism. Regardless of the most meticulous historical representation, and in spite of its deep inscription on modernity, even when it is rubbed against one’s nose – anti-Semitism keeps claiming the place of a phantom, or a metaphor, in the mind; as if shielded from
Becoming a Psychoanalyst
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