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Jewish Exile Into Dominant Culture:

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Jewish Exile Into Dominant Culture:

[Thesis]

Appt, Jason

A Decolonial Perinatal Psychology of Westernized Jewry's Identification With the Aggressor as Historical Trauma Response

Elfers, John

Sofia University

2020

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Ph.D.

Sofia University

2020

This project argues global Western Jewry's post-Holocaust reclassification into dominant culture is an historical trauma response (HTR), expression of the Jewish soul wound, and new Jewish exile. Part I reviews Native American postcolonial psychology and multigenerational trauma studies concepts of soul wound, historical trauma (HT), and HTR; British critical psychology concepts of threat response and troubled or troubling behavior; the Jewish psychoanalytic concept of identification with the aggressor (IWA); and Latin American/Southern decolonial concepts of modernity/coloniality, the civilization/barbarism dualism, and forced inclusion/exclusion. Soul wound's recognition of certain violent behavior as the HTR of IWA, or imitation of the oppressor to escape the position of the oppressed, makes it particularly suited for a critical analysis of Jewish troubled or troubling behavior in Israel/Palestine and American Israel. To understand Jewish colonialism as the HTR of IWA, I review postcolonial studies of modern European Jewish history demonstrating European Jews were internally colonized, including the Holocaust as colonialism, and thus are postcolonial subjects today. I then review Palestinian and Jewish postcolonial theory conceptualizing Zionism become Israeli nationalism as a confusing combinational case of a postcolonial colony, Jewish colonial drag, conscious, eccentric, and ambivalent colonialism, and coloniality in the name of indigeneity. I argue Westernized Jewry's exile into the civilization side of the racialized binary is a form of the forced inclusion/exclusion domination pattern and thus neocolonization designed to deceptively portray freedom. Part II reviews depth and transpersonal psychology concepts of the cultural and perinatal unconscious, cultural complex, systems of condensed experience (COEX), basic perinatal matrices (BPM), and Neusnerian theory of exile and return in the history of Judaism. I trace the cultural complex/COEX of exile and return throughout Jewish psychic history and demonstrate Westernized Jewry's HTR of IWA represents an externalized and thus unresolved death and rebirth process within the Jewish perinatal unconscious. Part III reviews Freud's perinatal, ancestral/cultural, and transpersonal discourse, critiques Grof's misrepresentation of Freud as limited to the personal unconscious, and thinks toward a perinatal and transpersonal theory of IWA based on Freud's ideas of birth as prototype of all castration and the castration complex as deepest unconscious root of antisemitism.

Clinical psychology

Ethnic studies

Judaic studies

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Elfers, John

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