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This book weaves together philosophical, theological, psychoanalytical, and political paradigms, providing both a historicization and a theorization of the Israeli experience and encompassing social-political events in recent history and life in Israel.
Born out of Itzhak Benyamini's subjective experience as an "Israeli," a "Mizrahi" (a Hebrew term referring to a Jewish person whose origin derives from the Muslim world), and a "civilian," this book provides an in-depth discussion of the psychical and philosophical ramifications of recent sociopolitical events in Israel. Throughout chapters discussing topics such as identity, the uncanny, and the political ontology of time, Benyamini sheds light on the uncanny feelings of Israelis following Benyamin Netanyahu's long term in office. The book deciphers the multilayered Israeli anxiety and exposes the measure of complexity that such a psycho-political identity accumulates.
A multidisciplinary work combining sociological, psychoanalytical, and philosophical thought, this book will be of interest to scholars, students, and professionals in these fields and those who would like to learn more about Israeli culture.
List of contents
1. Introduction: The Citizen Crushing under the Political Entanglement 2. The Non-Non-Affiliation of the Citizen to the Political: Conceptual Background to the Citizen's Abjectivation and Anxiety 3. Civil Anxiety: The Tent Protest and the Theo-Political Uncanniness 4. The Israeli Anxiety: With Freud, Heidegger, Lacan, and Netanyahu 5. There Is Something of the Mizrahiness: On Re-Inscribing Identity Contents Retrospectively 6. The Political Ontology of Time 7. The Pre-Theological YOU: Reading Psalm 23 following October 7 8. Netanyahu's Anxiety Machine: Afterword - October 16, 2023
About the author
Itzhak Benyamini teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and in the Psychotherapy Program at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Benyamini is the author of numerous books and articles, which have been translated into English, French, and German. His main interests cover, as well as weave together, the intricate relations between psychoanalytic theory and religious and political discourses.
