Talk: Freud and the Jewish Hermeneutical Tradition

David Bakan wrote a ground-breaking book entitled Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition in 1958. Despite the fact that Freud always asserted science and reason as hallmarks of psychoanalysis, the links Bakan makes between Freud’s theories of the dream and of sexuality – so novel in pre-War Vienna – and Kabbalistic hermeneutics, are unforced. This talk connects Bakan’s early conjectures and explorations with the recent more detailed and elaborate work of Eliot R. Wolfson in kabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination. Religious hermeneutics were there in Freud’s inception of psychoanalysis, and in our age, which has seen not the phasing out but rather a return to religion, literacy in these matters remains crucial.

Suitable for
18+


Website
http://www.freud.org.uk/events/75542/freud-and-the-jewish-hermeneutical-tradition/

Admission
£10.00/£7.00

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000274?id=EVENT481978