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Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to Now

Inner Lives Over Time

Av Nathan M. Szajnberg

Del i serien Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts

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How did we develop our current views of inner life? Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to the Present: Inner Life Over Time reaches back to Biblical and Homeric times, then sweeps across over two millennia of Western literature to answer this question. We discover that while there are discrete contributions from different eras/cultures about inner life—volition, ego ideal, superego, development as a journey, relatedness, even the fact of innerness—there are also at least three trends that have endured from the beginning of our literature and continue as ostinatos beneath each theme and variation of development. These are emotions and our need to conceal and reveal secrets and attachment that is our ability to explore from a secure base. This book takes us through the journey of discovery to arrive at our twenty-first century sense of self and inner life. We follow Auerbach’s text, Mimesis, as a guide through the literature, but add surprises such as Maimonides’ Guide to the perplexed or Rousseau’s Confessions to arrive at the sense that while there are particularities to eras and cultures, there is also something universal that resonates with us and endures.
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Nathan Moses Szajnberg is former Freud professor at the Hebrew University and currently a training analyst at Israel Psychoanalytic Society.

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I am impressed not only with the reach of Szajnberg’s project but also with the exquisite sophistication of his language. His goal is to use the 'Western' tradition to place psychoanalysis in a much more complex cultural frame than has yet to be undertaken. Using Auerbach as his Vergil, he plumbs a number to texts, from the Bible(s) to his old teacher Saul Bellow. The stops along the way, Dante, Shakespeare, Rousseau, are paralleled to outliers from Ovid to Maimonides to global fairy tales. This makes the reading not only a pleasure but a sort of adventure, as he is able to link all of these moments with their cultural claims as well as their universal approbation. Rather than being disjointed, such an approach serves to anchor his argument in both the Western cultural tradition as well as in the most engaging for of psychoanalytic speculation.

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