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Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts
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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 similarities between Biblical,
Midrashic, Kabbalistic, and Hasidic perceptions of birth, as well
as its place in contemporary cultural and psychoanalytic discourse.
In addition, this study shows how birth functions as a vital
metaphor that has been foundational to art, philosophy, religion,
and literature. Medieval Kabbalistic literature compared human
birth to divine emanation, and presented human sexuality and
procreation as a reflection of the sefirotic structure of the
Godhead - an attempt, Kaniel claims, to marginalize the fear of
death by linking the humane and divine acts of birth. This book
sheds new light on the image of God as the "Great Mother" and the
crucial role of the Shekhinah as a cosmic womb. Birth in Kabbalah
and Psychoanalysis won the Gorgias Prize and garnered significant
appreciation from psychoanalytic therapists in clinical practice
dealing with birth trauma, postpartum depression, and in early
infancy distress.
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