Answering a Question with a Question

Lewis Aron is the Director of the New York University, USA Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is the author of A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis (The Analytic Press, 1996). Libby Henik (LCSW) is in private practice in New York and New Jersey, USA.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionLewis Aron and Libby Henik1. DESIRE, LOVE AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELFRashi and Desire: Reading Rashi’s Reading of Genesis 39Cheryl Goldstein“The Impressive Caesura” and “New Beginning” in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Mystical Experience—Birth, Creation and TransformationRuth Kara-Ivanov KanielOn Abandoning Aristotle: Love in Psychoanalysis and Jewish PhilosophyWilliam Kolbrener Bewilderments: The Story of the SpiesAvivah Zornberg2. TRAUMA AND BREAKDOWNThe “Hearing Heart” and the “Voice” of BreakdownOfra Eshel“Have You Seen My Servant Job?” A Psychological Approach to Suffering Richard KradinOn the Use of Selected Lead Words in Tracing the Trajectory of the Transmission of Transgenerational Trauma in the Genesis Ancestral SagaMenorah Lafayette Rotenberg3. MOURNING, RITUALS AND MEMORYThe “Coat of Many Colors” as Linking Object: A Nodal Moment in the Narrative of Jacob’s Bereavement for JosephMoshe Halevi SperoShadows of the Unseen GriefCheryl FriedmanAcross a Lifetime: On the Dynamics of Commemorative RitualJoyce Slochower4. HOLOCAUST, INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION AND MEMORYThe Testimonial Process as a Reversal of the Traumatic Shutdown of Narrative and SymbolizationDori LaubHolocaust Memories and their TransmissionAnnette FurstIn Bed with a Collaborator: Reenactments of Historical Trauma by a Granddaughter of Holocaust SurvivorsNirit Gradwohl PisanoContributorsIndex

“Answering a Question with a Question is for those who want to understand the covered topics from a psychoanalytic perspective. It is recommended for academic collections and other collections with readers interested in the confluence of Jewish sources and psychology.”