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This volume explores the relevance of psychoanalysis to contemporary philosophical problems. The novelty of the book's viewpoint is the consideration of psychoanalysis as an existentialist mode of thinking that deals with current existential problems such as loneliness, uncertainty, struggling with personal tragedies and rehabilitation.
List of contents
Prologue
- Rollo May and R. Joseph Soloveitchik: Psychotherapy and philosophy - Dov Schwartz
- From fear to creativity: Melanie Klein's interpretation of literary fiction as conceptual investigations - Dorit Lemberger
- Psychoanalysis and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Wittgensteinian-Existential Perspective - Nir Soffer-Dudek
- "Look into the Depths within Yourself and Find the Outside World": The Contribution of Rudolf Steiner's Monistic Philosophy to Psychoanalytic Conceptualization - Tali Sella
- Malfunctions in the Symbolic Space: A Psychoanalytic-Semiotic View - Sharon Strasburg
- "Bring Words back from their Metaphysical to their Everyday Use" - Meaning in Life through Ordinary Language Use - Yael Mishani-Uval
- Language game and separations: A psychoanalytic-philosophical view about the infinity of the separation experience - Ophira Schorr Levy
- Unhappy-Certainty - Alice Maya Keinan
- "Tragic Knots" Following Acquired Chronic Medical Conditions: A Relational Perspective in Psychotherapy in Medical Settings - Orin Segal
- Language Games and Private Language, Wizards and Witches: How a child with autism builds their emotional world - A psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary view - Irit Hagai
- Self-Constructive vs. Self-Destructive Mechanisms in the Writings of Anorexics - Ruth Kaplan Zarchi
- The Land of Shadows and Intuition: Bion's and Wittgenstein's return to Plato's Cave - Ronnie Carmeli
Shades of Loneliness: A Psychoanalytic Study of Samuel Beckett's
Rockaby - Tsiky Cohen
About the author
Dorit Lemberger, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, in the department of Hermeneutics and Cultural studies that includes a Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics track. She is an advisor of many doctorate students who write interdisciplinary research using Wittgenstein's philosophy and pragmatic thinkers to enlighten linguistic usage in Hebrew literary texts and Psychoanalytic writings. Dr. Lemberger is an associate editor of
Hebrew Studies Journal.
Summary
This volume explores the relevance of psychoanalysis to contemporary philosophical problems. The novelty of the book's viewpoint is the consideration of psychoanalysis as an existentialist mode of thinking that deals with current existential problems such as loneliness, uncertainty, struggling with personal tragedies and rehabilitation.
