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Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts)

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.

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EAN	9783110687491
UPC	9783110687491
ISBN	9783110687491
Format	Hardback, 262 pages
Author	Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, Ruth
Book Title	Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis (Perspectives
Item Height	1.9 cm
Item Length	23.4 cm
Item Weight	0.59 kg
Item Width	15.6 cm
Language	Eng
Publisher	De Gruyter

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.　