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...
This class will concentrate on psychoanalysis as a mode of healing by interpretating a person’s gestures, speech, and dreams as expressions of the unconscious. In what sense can the “talking cure” heal a patient? We explore the terrain of Jewish theology and texts...
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