Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis - Couverture souple

Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, Ruth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3111520579 ISBN 13 : 9783111520575

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2024

Synopsis

Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis examines the centrality of "birth" in Jewish literature, gender theory, and psychoanalysis, thus challenging the centrality of death in Western culture and existential philosophy. In this groundbreaking study, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel discuss similarities between Biblical, Midrashic, Kabbalistic, and Hasidic perceptions of birth, as well as its place in contemporary cultural and psychoanalytic discourse. In addition, this study shows how birth functions as a vital metaphor that has been foundational to art, philosophy, religion, and literature. Medieval Kabbalistic literature compared human birth to divine emanation, and presented human sexuality and procreation as a reflection of the sefirotic structure of the Godhead - an attempt, Kaniel claims, to marginalize the fear of death by linking the humane and divine acts of birth. This book sheds new light on the image of God as the "Great Mother" and the crucial role of the Shekhinah as a cosmic womb.

Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis won the Gorgias Prize and garnered significant appreciation from psychoanalytic therapists in clinical practice dealing with birth trauma, postpartum depression, and in early infancy distress.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, Haifa University, Israel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3111520579
• ISBN 13: 9783111520575
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 262
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