The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies

Editor : Stephen Frosh, Editor : Devorah Baum

The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : 628
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97966
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032442655
  • ISBN 10 : 1032442654

Table of Contents


1. Introduction
Stephen Frosh and Devorah Baum

Part 1: Histories
2. Jewish origins of psychoanalysis
Stephen Frosh  

3. The Unconscious before Freud: Between Mysticism and the Spectre of Antisemitism
Clémence Boulouque

4. Falling Out of the World: Portraits of Freud’s Home as a Vanishing Act
George Prochnik

5. C. G. Jung, antisemitism and the history of psychoanalysis
Daniel Burston   

6. Sigmund Freud: Figure of History, Memory, or Anti- Jewish Fantasy?
Marsha Aileen Hewitt

7. Dreams and Trauma: With Freud to Zion
Eran J. Rolnik  

8. Nazism and Psychoanalysis in Brazil: The institution of silence in the first psychoanalytic societies
Belinda Mandelbaum and Cristiana Facchinetti

Part 2: Judaism and Bible
9. Beginnings
Michael Eigen

10. Freud as Talmudist
Adam Kirsch

11. The Earliest Trauma Story: Dissociation and Enactment in the Biblical Narratives of Isaac and Rebecca
Libby Henik

12. The Akedah: Abuse of Power and Psychological Processes
Jeremy Schonfield

13. Jonah: The Dynamics of Compassion
Avivah Zornberg  

14. Rabbinics and Psychoanalytic Insight
Howard Cooper

15. Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah
Yehoshua Engelman  

16. Like Clay in the Hand of the Potter: The place of music in Hasidic prayer
Hilit Erel-Brodsky

17. One Servant, Two Masters? Religiously Observant Jews in Psychoanalytic Treatment
Seth Aronson

18. Nichsapha: Wandering, Yearning and Mercy in Bracha L. Ettinger’s Hebraic Imaginary and her Matrixial Transformation of Psychoanalytical Ethics
Griselda Pollock

Part 3: Antisemitism and Holocaust
19. Psychoanalysis and the Holocaust – A Personal Note
Ira Brenner 

20. Freud, Psychoanalysis and Antisemitism
Sander L. Gilman

21. Judaism, Antisemitism and Zionism in Fromm and the Frankfurt School
Daniel Burston

22. Antisemitism and Magical Thinking
Renée Danziger

23. Jewish self-hatred and the ‘internalization paradigm’
Shaul Bar-Haim

24. The murder of the dead father: The Shoah and contemporary antisemitism
Rosine Jozef Perelberg

25. Proteophobia and Jewishness: Fear of the Uncategorizable
Benjamin Strosberg

26. Frantz Fanon: Psychiatry, Antisemitism and Colonialism
Bryan Cheyette

27. Trauma, Reparations, and the Paradoxes of Post- Holocaust Antisemitism
Dagmar Herzog

28. The Dead Baby
Orna Guralnik

29. What Happened to the Baby’s Head? Between Victims and Victimizers
Emily A. Kuriloff

30. Thinking Under "Real Fire"
Judith Triest

31. Thoughts about the Jewishness of Psychoanalysis: Antisemitism and Its Repercussions Revisited
H. Shmuel Erlich

Part 4: Jewish Culture
32. Trauma, Gender, and the Stories of Jewish Women: The Other Within
Jill Salberg

33. Jewish Identity and Musical Modernism: Mahler, Schoenberg, and their complex relationship with Judaism
Roger Kennedy

34. Sons of the Jewish Joke: Psychoanalysis and Jewish American Literature After 1945
Andrew Dean

35. Primitive Agonies and the Breakdown That Always Has Been in Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy
Mazalit Haim

36. Jewish Film and Psychoanalysis: Stanley Kubrick – A Case Study
Nathan Abrams

37. Dreams, intergenerational trauma and the textual unconscious in Daria Martin’s Tonight the World
Emily-Rose Baker

38. ‘A strange, special day. Playing a ghost, yet haunting myself.’ The Holocaust, the magical and the real in Elijah Moshinsky’s Genghis Cohn (1993)
James Jordan

39 Balzac, Freud, and My Mother (or A Story about Passing)
Lisa Appignanesi

Index

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