The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies

Stephen Frosh is emeritus professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. He was consultant clinical psychologist and vice dean at the Tavistock Clinic, London, in the 1990s. He is an academic associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Devorah Baum is professor in English Literature at the University of Southampton and at the Parkes Institute at Southampton, one of the world’s leading centres for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations.

1.Introduction. Part 1: Histories. 2.Jewish origins of psychoanalysis. 3.The Unconscious before Freud: Between Mysticism and the Spectre of Antisemitism. 4.Falling Out of the World: Portraits of Freud’s Home as a Vanishing Act. 5.C.G. Jung, antisemitism and the history of psychoanalysis. 6.Sigmund Freud: Figure of History, Memory, or Anti-Jewish Fantasy? 7.Dreams and Trauma: With Freud to Zion. 8.Nazism and Psychoanalysis in Brazil: The institution of silence in the first psychoanalytic societies. Part 2: Judaism and Bible 9.Beginnings. 10.Freud as Talmudist. 11.The Earliest Trauma Story: Dissociation and Enactment in the Biblical Narratives of Isaac and Rebecca. 12.The Akedah: Abuse of Power and Psychological Processes. 13.Jonah: The Dynamics of Compassion. 14.Rabbinics and Psychoanalytic Insight. 15.Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah. 16.Like Clay in the Hand of the Potter: The place of music in Hasidic prayer. 17.One Servant, Two Masters? Religiously Observant Jews in Psychoanalytic Treatment. 18.Nichsapha: Wandering, Yearning and Mercy in Bracha L. Ettinger’s Hebraic Imaginary and her Matrixial Transformation of Psychoanalytical Ethics. Part 3: Antisemitism and Holocaust 19.Psychoanalysis and the Holocaust – A Personal Note. 20.Freud, Psychoanalysis and Antisemitism. 21.Judaism, Antisemitism and Zionism in Fromm and the Frankfurt School. 22.Antisemitism and Magical Thinking. 23.Jewish self-hatred and the ‘internalization paradigm’. 24.The murder of the dead father: The Shoah and contemporary antisemitism. 25.Proteophobia and Jewishness: Fear of the Uncategorizable. 26.Frantz Fanon: Psychiatry, Antisemitism and Colonialism. 27.Trauma, Reparations, and the Paradoxes of Post-Holocaust Antisemitism. 28.The Dead Baby. 29.What Happened to the Baby’s Head? Between Victims and Victimizers. 30.Thinking Under "Real Fire". 31.Thoughts about the Jewishness of Psychoanalysis: Antisemitism and Its Repercussions Revisited. Part 4: Jewish Culture 32.Trauma, Gender, and the Stories of Jewish Women: The Other Within. 33.Jewish Identity and Musical Modernism: Mahler, Schoenberg, and their complex relationship with Judaism. 34.Sons of the Jewish Joke: Psychoanalysis and Jewish American Literature After 1945. 35.Primitive Agonies and the Breakdown That Always Has Been in Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy. 36.Jewish Film and Psychoanalysis: Stanley Kubrick – A Case Study. 37.Dreams, intergenerational trauma and the textual unconscious in Daria Martin’s Tonight the World. 38. ‘A strange, special day. Playing a ghost, yet haunting myself.’ The Holocaust, the magical and the real in Elijah Moshinsky’s Genghis Cohn. 39.Balzac, Freud, and My Mother (or A Story about Passing).