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Therapy and Ideology: Psychoanalysis and Its Vicissitudes in Pre-state Israel (Including Some Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2010

Eran J. Rolnik
Eran J. Rolnik*
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Tel-Aviv University; Israel Psychoanalytic Society
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Argument

Few chapters in the historiography of psychoanalysis are as densely packed with trans-cultural, ideological, institutional, and moral issues as the coming of psychoanalysis to Jewish Palestine – a geopolitical space which bears some of the deepest scars of twentieth-century European, and in particular German, history. From the historical as well as the critical perspective, this article reconstructs the intricate connections between migration, separation and loss, continuity and new beginning which resonate in the formative years of psychoanalysis in pre-state Israel.

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Science in Context , Volume 23 , Special Issue 4: Science in an Israeli Context: Case Studies , December 2010 , pp. 473 - 506
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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