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Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis


Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis


ISSN, Band 18 1. Aufl.

von: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel

99,95 €

Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 05.07.2022
ISBN/EAN: 9783110688108
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 262

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<p><em>Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis</em> 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<em> </em>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 <em>Shekhinah</em> as a cosmic womb.  </p>
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<p>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. </p>
<p><em>Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis</em> 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<em> </em>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 <em>Shekhinah</em> as a cosmic womb.  </p>
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<p>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.  </p>
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<p><strong>Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel</strong>, Haifa University, Israel. </p>

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