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
The moment comes when all serious readers of Freud must ask themselves what it was that prompted this man, in old age, to investigate the ‘true identity’ of Moses Review of Yerushalimi’s Freud’s Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable read full review in Haaretz>>
Review of Itamar Levy’s Home and Road-Reflections on the Psychoanalytic Imagination read the paper in hebrew>>
Review of Shlomo Mendelovitch The Social Order of Multiple Selves: Psychoanalysis after the Post-modenism Read review in Hebrew on Haaretz Review of Books>>
Review of Aner Govrin’s Between Abstinence and Seduction: From Positivism to Post-modernism in American Psychoanalyis published in Hebrew>>
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>>
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
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
Review of Freud’s Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious Published in Hebrew in the Haaretz Review of Books>>
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