1st Edition

Freud in Zion Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity

By Eran J. Rolnik Copyright 2012
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Freud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this ground-breaking study psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution in a unique political and cultural context of war, immigration, ethnic tensions, colonial rule and nation building. Based on hundreds of... Read more
Series Editor’s Foreword , Preface , Introduction: a costly dream , The Freudians and the “new man” of the Zionist revolution , Psychoanalytic pioneers and their discontents , We’ve lost Berlin , Migration and interpretation , Homegrown psychoanalysis , A psychoanalytic midrash , Epilogue: dynamite in the house

Biography

Eran Rolnik