Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis / / Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, Ruth,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Année de publication: 2022
• Langue: English
• Collection: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , 18
• Description matérielle: 1 online resource (XI, 251 p.)

Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis examines the centrality of "birth" in Jewish literature, gender theory, and psychoanalysis, thus challenging the centrality of death in Western culture and existential philosophy. In this groundbreaking study, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel discuss similaritie...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Existentialism of Birth
• Chapter 2 The Theology and Ethics of Birth
• Chapter 3 The Caesura of Birth
• Chapter 4 “The Womb Is a Tomb”: The Imagery of the Uterus and Female Guilt and Death
• Chapter 5 The Double Beginning of the Zohar
• Chapter 6 Longing for the Source
• Chapter 7 Birth in Lurianic Kabbalah
• Chapter 8 Redemption as Birth, Birth as Redemption
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index