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
Those who see Netanyahu as Machiavellian, guided solely by political interests, miss his deep need to sidestep the truth even when the truth is unlikely to hurt him and a lie offers no political advantage. A year after claiming that the mufti of Jerusalem gave Hitler the idea of annihilating
published in Paradigma der Moderne Read paper in German>>
Everyone says that “the truth hurts,” but only the liar does something about it. Pathological or compulsive lying is an interesting human behavior, and can up to a point be quite spellbinding. In psychiatry it is customary to distinguish between lying that serves a clear “external” benefit, and “pathological,” habitual
The social protest in Israel that began in the summer of 2011 has had its achievements. But until now it has been more of a political lightning rod and social shock-absorber than a challenge to the existing political order, whose single purpose is to prevent the Israelis from truly mourning
Una reciente declaración de los científicos cognitivos sobre memorias recuperadas lanza dudas engañosas sobre uno de los apuntalamientos de la psicología Freudiana, mientras socava la lucha contra violencia sexual cometida contra niños. Por Eran Rolnik / Haaretz Nov. 1, 2014>> PDF>>
Great letter-writer that he was, the father of psychoanalysis corresponded with a number of colleagues in pre-state Israel. To one of them, Dr. Yochanan Lewinson, Freud wrote about his preoccupation with the supernatural and telepathy. His letter to Lewinson is published here, for the first time read full paper>>
Freud’s path to acceptance in France was even less straightforward than in England and America, and “Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse” (The Language of Psychoanalysis ), published in 1967, was meant to help remedy this. The fact that its authors, Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, were born in the period between
Seldom theoretical in nature, Freud’s letters to Eitingon deal mostly with strategic and institutional issues. But even Freud’s repeated reports on his painful mouth prosthesis (so familiar to any reader of Freud’s correspondence in his later years) sound more revealing than usual—as, for example, when Freud is reporting to
This paper, that was originally written as an Epilogue to the Hebrew Translation of Freud’s Introduction to Narcissism, was also published as a review paper in Sihot-Israel Journal of Psychotherapy read the paper in Hebrew>>