Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Psychoanalysis has had a powerful influence on Western culture, so powerful that people sometimes refer to modernity as a post-Freudian era. We know that Sigmund Freud was Jewish, read Hebrew fluently, had a deep knowledge of Jewish theology, and that he was the founder of psychoanalysis. Why, though, has it been called a “Jewish Science?” In this talk, we focus on what psychoanalysis is, how it led to a new paradigm of understanding the human psyche, and how Freud’s Judaism led to his developing this mode of therapy.