The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, Volume Two: Hasidism is the
second volume, fullyannotated, of a major, previously unpublished,
two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905-1960). It was written between
1940 and 1945, after Neumann, then a young philosopher and
physician and freshly trained as a disciple of Jung, fled Berlin to
settle in Tel Aviv. He finished this work at the end of World War
II. Although he never published it, he kept it the rest of his
life. Volume Two, Hasidism, is devoted to the psychological and
spiritual wisdom embodied in Jewish spiritual tradition. Relying on
Jung's concepts and Buber's Hasidic interpretations, Neumann seeks
alternatives to the legalism and anti-feminine bias that he says
have dominated collective Judaism since the Second Temple. He
argues that modern Jews can develop psychological wholeness through
an appropriation of Hasidic legends, Talmudic texts, and
Kabbalistic mysteries, including especially the Zohar. Exclusively,
this volume includes a foreword by Moshe Idel. An appendix,
Neumann's four-lecture series from the 1940s, gives a glimpse of
his intended, unpublished Part Three. These volumes anticipate
Neumann's later works, including Depth Psychology and a New Ethic,
The Origins and History of Consciousness, and The Great Mother. In
Volume Two, Hasidism, his concept of the ego-Self axis is developed
in clearly psychological terms. Four previously unpublished essays,
appended to Volume Two, illustrate Neumann's developmental
psychology, including his theme of primary and secondary
personalization. This unique work will appeal to Jungian analysts
and psychotherapists in training and in practice, historians of
psychology, Jewish scholars, biblical historians, teachers of
comparative religion, as well as academics and students.
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