Pragmatic-Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Amos Oz's Writings

Pragmatic-Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Amos Oz's Writings: Words Significantly Uttered presents intermediate links between three intellectual domains: the literary works of Amos Oz, American Pragmatism, and object-relations psychoanalysis. The interdisciplinary method employed here involves a presentation of Oz’s writings as the starting point for an existential debate that addresses a mental-conceptual struggle. This conceptual conflict, which has been given aesthetic shape in the literary work, inspires the presentation of central pragmatic and psychoanalytic concepts with which one may evaluate how each of these domains might contribute to a new and richer understanding of the conceptual tension or existential challenge. Each of the chapters aimed to interpret Oz’s works not only as literary masterpieces but as existential-philosophical expressions. Dorit Lemberger’s main argument is that Oz reconceptualized psychological, personal, familial, and often national, processes in a way that allows readers to understand such processes in general life from a retrospective perspective.