Answering a Question with a Question (Vol II): Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought. A Tradition of Inquiry

by Lewis Aron, Libby Henik

Inquiry, questioning, and wonder are defining features of both psychoanalysis and the Jewish tradition. The question invites inquiry, analysis, discussion, debate, multiple meanings, and interpretation that continues across the generations. If questions and inquiry are the mainstay of Jewish scholarship, then it should not be surprising that they would be central to the psychoanalytic method developed by Sigmund Freud. The themes taken up in this book are trauma, traumatic reenactment, intergenerational transmission of trauma, love, loss, mourning, ritual―these subjects are of particular relevance and concern within Jewish thought and the history of the Jewish people, and they raise questions of great relevance to psychoanalysis both theoretically and clinically. In Answering a Question with a Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish A Tradition of Inquiry, Editors, Aron and Henik, have brought together an international collection of contemporary scholars and clinicians to address the interface and mutual influence of Jewish thought and modern psychoanalysis, two traditions of inquiry.

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 15, 2015