Freud, Jung, and Jonah: Religion and the Birth of the Psychoanalytic Periodical - Hardcover

Katz, Maya Balakirsky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009100009 ISBN 13: 9781009100007

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Religion, more than sexuality, cast psychoanalysis in controversy and onto the world stage even as it threatened to dismantle the psychoanalytic collective. In the founding years of the first psychoanalytic periodicals, relational dynamics shaped the psychoanalytic corpus on religion. The psychoanalytic pioneers developed their ideas in tandem even if in protest to one another. Religion is a topic worthy of engagement, not least because the symbolized terrain in the history of religion was so often deployed as a vehicle for motivating, disciplining, or editing out a member of the psychoanalytic community in publication. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to religion and psychology, including a compelling denouement that reveals new narratives about longstanding rumours in the early history of the psychoanalytic movement. Above all, this volume demonstrates that the first generation of psychoanalysts succeeded in writing themselves into the history of religious thought and sacralizing the origins of psychoanalysis.

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About the Author

Maya Balakirsky Katz is a clinical psychoanalyst and an Associate Professor of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is the author of The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010) and Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation (2016). She is a co-editor of the journal Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009100009
• ISBN 13: 9781009100007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200