Ultimate Intimacy: The Psychodynamics of Jewish Mysticism
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 1995
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 432
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 3674
- ISBN 13 : 9781855751057
- ISBN 10 : 1855751054
Reviews and Endorsements
'Regularly in essays, books and lectures on Jewish mysticism, the author will observe that the material is so strange and irrational that it invites psychological analysis. From his point of view, the psychoanalyst easily recognizes familiar dynamic formulations and myths and eagerly explores mystical materials for the universals of human fantasy and the sources of irrational thoughts and behavior; for information on methods of inducing alterations of behavior; and for the universals that characterize the relation between the individual and his community. It is the purpose of this book to introduce the psychoanalytic study of the Kabbalah as a serious discipline.'
- Mortimer Ostow, from his Introduction.