1st Edition
Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History A Comparative Study
By David Aberbach
Copyright 2026
184 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History: A Comparative Study compares the writings of Samuel Joseph Agnon (1887–1970) with other writers, including Gustav Flaubert, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, and Carl Gustav Jung, as well as his great Hebrew predecessors, Mendele Mocher Sefraim and Chaim Nachman Bialik, who drew on the ancient Jewish biblical and rabbinic tradition in creating a... Read more
Introduction
1. The crying child in Agnon and Kafka
2. Jewish nationalism and midrashic autobiography: Agnon and his contemporaries
3. Beggars of love: Agnon and Flaubert
4. Loss and creativity: Agnon and Lawrence
5. Fantasies of deviance: Agnon and Mendele
6. Foreshadowings of catastrophe: Agnon and German-Jewish literature
7. Agnon and psychoanalysis: the quest for wholeness
In Memoriam
Appendix 1: David Aberbach, Hebrew article in Moznayim, ‘The Lost Mother in Agnon’
Appendix 2: David Aberbach, article in Commentary, ‘Freud’s Jewish Problem’
Bibliography
Index
Biography
David Aberbach is Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
