psychoanalysis and the making of modern Jewish identity /
First Statement of Responsibility
Eran J. Rolnik ; [translated by Haim Watzman].
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Karnac Books,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2012.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxxv, 252 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
History of psychoanalysis series
GENERAL NOTES
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"First published in Hebrew in 2007 by Am Oved Books, Tel Aviv, Israel" -- t. p. verso.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The Freudians and the "new man" of the Zionist revolution -- Psychoanalytic pioneers and their discontents -- We've lost Berlin -- Migration and interpretation -- Homegrown psychoanalysis -- A psychoanalytic midrash -- Dynamite in the house.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Freud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this ground-breaking study psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution in a unique political and cultural context of war, immigration, ethnic tensions, colonial rule and nation building. Based on hundreds of hitherto unpublished documents, including many unpublished letters by Freud, this book integrates intellectual and social history to offer a moving and persuasive account of how psychoanalysis permeated pop.