A Burning World, an Absent God

Cushman, Philip

doi:10.1080/00107530.2007.10745896

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“…For instance, Philip Cushman claims that the Jewish midrashic tradition might inform contemporary relational psychoanalytic practice -indeed that it often does so unawares, as 'In ways that we may not realize, Jewish therapists might be moved by deeply felt, embodied ways of being and thus moral commitments that have their origins in ideas and social practices hundreds or even thousands of years old and socially transmitted to us in ways implicit and constitutive.' 47 The substance of this influence is to promote certain values ('engagement, historicity, interpersonal interaction, the dialectic of absence and presence, the prohibition against idolatry') and develop 'a process of study and authorial creation that seems structured to encourage learners to engage with and enact those values, which are among the most important concepts in Jewish thought.' 48 Cushman's focus is on how these values are congruent with relational psychotherapy, and indeed this may be one way in which some of the issues raised here have psychotherapeutic effect.…”

Section: Relational Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychoanalytic Judaism, Judaic Psychoanalysis

Frosh

2022

European Judaism

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The article begins with a summary account of some major trends in the co-location of psychoanalysis and Judaism, relating particularly to: the origins of psychoanalysis; antisemitism directed towards, and within, psychoanalysis; links between Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis through notions of ‘tikkun’ and reparation; hermeneutics and interpretation; and the transmission of knowledge through intense personal relationships. Psychoanalytic interpretation has also been applied to some Jewish (especially biblical) texts. The article then offers an account of Jewishness as rooted in ambivalence and contradictory ties – and particularly as a way of being that is fundamentally interrupted by otherness. I give an example of this and try to show that what one author I draw on calls ‘the backward pull of love and accidental attachment’ is constitutive of Judaism and of psychoanalysis as well. As such, it is a powerful ethical claim to say that ‘Judaic’ psychoanalysis exists.

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Section: Relational Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychoanalytic Judaism, Judaic Psychoanalysis

Frosh

2022

European Judaism

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“…There is also psychotherapeutic relevance for some of this work. For instance, Philip Cushman (2007) claims that the Jewish midrashic tradition (the aspect of Jewish thought focusing on interpretation through questions and narratives) might inform contemporary relational psychoanalytic practiceindeed, that it often does so unawares, as "[i]n ways that we may not realize, Jewish therapists might be moved by deeply felt, embodied ways of being and thus moral commitments that have their origins in ideas and social practices hundreds or even thousands of years old and socially transmitted to us in ways implicit and constitutive" (p. 82). The substance of this influence is to promote certain values ("engagement, historicity, interpersonal interaction, the dialectic of absence and presence, the prohibition against idolatry") and develop "a process of study and authorial creation that seems structured to encourage learners to engage with and enact those values, which are among the most important concepts in Jewish thought" (p. 53).…”

Section: Back To Psychoanalysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychoanalysis as decolonial Judaism

Frosh

2020

Psychoanal Cult Soc

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In some recent work on decolonization, there has been an attempt to claim some Jewish writers of the twentieth century as participating in a rethinking of "barbarism" that aligns Jewish thought with the decolonial movement. This is problematic, especially because post-Shoah and Zionist discourses have positioned Jews normatively as part of European "civilization" opposed to barbarism. Nevertheless, the reclaiming of a radical Jewish tradition allied with other movements of the oppressed may provide resources for "barbaric thinking," using "barbaric" here in the positive sense to mean that which confronts the hegemony of European colonial thought. The relative absence of psychoanalysis from this discussion is striking. Given the place of psychoanalysis both as a "colonial" discipline and as a contributor to critical and postcolonial thought, can it be seen in the positive tradition of Jewish barbarism? This article offers an account of Jewish barbaric possibilities and suggests ways in which psychoanalysis might connect with them.

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“…Hermeneutic interpretation is a pillar of Midrash, or Jewish Talmudic study (Cushman, 2007); 4 it is a process of witnessing how the Torah opens itself to you, and how you in turn shine a different light on the Torah (Kolbrener, 2004). This cycle of reading and re-reading, writing and re-writing, of "talking" to the text (Stone, 1998, p. 34), remains a crucial aspect of contemporary approaches to both understanding the Talmud and hermeneutic analysis more broadly.…”

Section: Hermeneutics and The Torahmentioning

confidence: 99%

"Lehadlik": Radical Jewish Music, Gender and Disidentification in Aviva Endean’s Work

Rosenberg¹

2018

DNM

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This paper undertakes a hermeneutic analysis of Aviva Endean's "Lehadlik", exploring the complex relationship between the player, a Jewish woman living in Australia, and traditional Jewish culture and rituals. This analysis connects Endean's work to the larger body of Radical Jewish Music, a movement which seeks to diversify and expand the meaning of contemporary Jewish music beyond the confines of Klezmer and religious hymns. The analysis includes an exploration of the relationship between Endean's womanhood, Orthodox Jewish traditions, and women's historical place in Judaism. Cover Page Footnote I would like to thank Aviva for her generosity in providing me with a wealth of information about the piece and permitting me to write this paper.

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A Burning World, an Absent God

Cited by 19 publications

References 25 publications

Psychoanalytic Judaism, Judaic Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalytic Judaism, Judaic Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis as decolonial Judaism

"Lehadlik": Radical Jewish Music, Gender and Disidentification in Aviva Endean’s Work

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