Psychoanalysis and Anti-semitism
podcast of a lecture in the conference “Why Anti-semitism” organized by the Hellenic Psychoanalytic , Society and Goethe Institute, Athens, March 2014 link to the lecture in English>>
Ideology and Identity
Between Ideology and Identity: Psychoanalysis in Jewish Palestine 1918-1948 The reception of psychoanalysis outside the German Cultural Sphere is an important chapter in the historiography of psychoanalysis as well as in the social and intellectual history of many societies. This paper attempts to historicize the reception of the Freudian paradigm
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The new book “Freud in Zion” describes the early days of psychoanalysis in Palestine. Who were the psychoanalysts that chose to leave Vienna and Berlin and come to Jerusalem? What did Sigmund Freud think about them and about Zionism? And how did analysis help people cope with the experience of
self-sacrifice as political weapon
Selbstaufopferung als politische Waffen Die Analyse von individuell frei gewählten oder kollektiv geplanten Zuiziden von Liebenden (denken Sie z.B an Kleist) oder Gruppenmitgliedern (Sekten, Masada etc.) begleitet das psychoanalytische Denken seit seinen Anfängen. Trotz des Unterschiedes zwischen der Verbundenheit von Liebenden, die den gemeinsamen Freitod wählen und dem politischen Mord
Discussion of Jean-Michel Quinodoz’ paper on Reading Freud Today
Jean-Michel Quinodoz’ book sprung out of the experience of reading Freud in a “closed group” setting. Not only has this experience been shared by analysts for more then a century, it is still considered one of the pillars of the psychoanalytic training program. In what, then, are psychoanalysts in our
On Death and Dying
Kobi Meidan, Psychoanalytic Perspective On Death and Dying. Radio Interview with Eran Rolnik at the Broadcast University. June 2015 (Heb.) link to the interview in Hebrew>>
The Gate Keeper
Interview in Haaretz on the place of the Dream in Contemporary Psychotherapy. Read the Interview in Hebrew>>
And then all at once the Joke is There
Review of Freud’s Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious Published in Hebrew in the Haaretz Review of Books>>
Who’s an Antisemite
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
Comments on Gregorio Kohon’s paper Jokes and Perversion
A vast outpouring of psychoanalytic literature has been devoted to sexual perversion. Mental symbolization is likewise one of the most contentious topics in our field. Gregorio Kohon’s paper is, to the best of my knowledge, the first to explore these two well-established objects of analytic investigation by juxtaposing them with