Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology

by Bunzl, John; Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9781402071553
• ISBN10: 1402071558
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Since its founding one hundred years ago psychoanalysis has been the focus of contention, controversy, and debate. What has been clear despite all controversies is that the psychoanalytic tradition has created and inspired special modes of critical thinking which have been used to examine both human behavior and corresponding social ideologies.Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology presents papers from a historic two day conference of leading Israeli, Palestinian, and European psychologists held in June of 1999. Sensitive professional and historical dilemmas are discussed with refreshing openness. This collection embodies the tradition of critical thinking applied to ideologies and identities, Zionism in particular, through a non-exclusive prism of psychoanalytic traditions.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xix
Part I: Identity, Ideology, and History	1	(136)
Political and literary answers to some ``Jewish Questions'': Proust, Joyce, Freud, and Herzl	5	(40)
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
The Temporal Emblematics of Belonging: Position and Validity in Israeli Political Discourse	45	(14)
Dan Diner
Towards a Critical Analysis of Israeli Political Culture	59	(12)
Moshe Zuckerman
On Marginal People: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel	71	(14)
Ramzi Suleiman
Unconscious defense mechanisms and social mechanisms used in national and political conflicts	85	(22)
Rafael Moses
Contentious Origins: Psychoanalytic Comments on the Debate over Israel's Creation	107	(30)
Jose Brunner
Part II: Psychoanalytic Treatment in Historical and Political Context	137	(78)
Psychoanalysis moves to Palestine: Immigration, integration, and reception	141	(36)
Eran J. Rolnik
Beyond analytic anonymity: On the political involvement of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in Israel	177	(24)
Emanuel Berman
Unavoidable Links and Violable Links: Israelis and Palestinians in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training	201	(14)
Yolanda Gampel
Epilogue: Looking Forward	215	(4)
John Bunzl
Index	219