1st Edition

The Hidden Freud His Hassidic Roots

By Joseph H. Berke Copyright 2015
    250 Pages
    by Routledge

    250 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book explores Sigmund Freud and his Jewish roots and demonstrates the input of the Jewish mystical tradition into Western culture via psychoanalysis. It shows how Freud utilized the Jewish mystical tradition to develop a science of subjectivity.

    Introduction -- Sigmund Freud and the Rebbe Rashab -- A tale of two orphans -- The Jewish mystical traditions -- Bion and Kabbalah -- On the nature of the self: and its relationship with the soul -- On the nature of the soul: and its relationship with the self -- The replacement child -- Sigmund Freud and Rabbi Safran -- On opposites -- Lowness of spirit -- Reparation -- Atonement -- Epilogue

    Biography

    H. Berke, Joseph