The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies

Editor : Stephen Frosh, Editor : Devorah Baum

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

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The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies is an innovative, multidisciplinary volume covering the history, religion, culture, and politics of Jewish studies and psychoanalysis.

An international team of contributors brings together these two fields and offers a critical assessment of the encounters that emerge from the confrontation and collaboration they have with each other. Chapters cover a broad range of topics including psychoanalytic history, critical theory, film, ritual, Jewish heritage, Bible, antisemitism, racism, life-writing, and the occult.

This Handbook will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in several interrelated disciplines, such as psychoanalysis, group analysis, sociology, anthropology, psychosocial studies, literature, film and gender studies. It will be of especial value to students of psychoanalytic and psychosocial studies.

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In this remarkable volume, Stephen Frosh and Devorah Baum stage an array of mutually transformative encounters between psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies, revealing a complex web of affinities, tensions and histories between the two. From the Biblical figures of Isaac and Jonah to the Rabbis of the Talmud, Viennese photographer Edmund Engelman to Stanley Kubrick and Philip Roth, Jewish self-hatred to fear of the other, no previous volume has brought so vividly and comprehensively to life the many sources of ongoing fascination between these two bodies of thought and experience.
Josh Cohen, Psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths University, UK

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

About the Editor(s)

Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Pro-Vice-Master at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also Co-Director of of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research. He is widely published, and is particularly well-known for his lucid accounts of psychoanalysis. His books include: For and Against Psychoanalysis (2006), Key Concepts in Psychoanalysis (2002) and The Politics of Psychoanalysis (1999).

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Devorah Baum is professor in English Literature at the University of Southampton and at the Parkes Institute at Southampton, one of the world’s leading centres for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations.  