Freud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this groundbreaking study, psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution in a unique political and cultural context of war, immigration, ethnic tensions, colonial rule and nation building. Based on hundreds of hitherto unpublished documents, including many unpublished letters by Freud, this book integrates intellectual and social history to offer a moving and persuasive account of how psychoanalysis permeated popular and intellectual discourse in the emerging Jewish state. Table of Contents:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD
PREFACE INTRODUCTION: A costly dream CHAPTER ONE: The Freudians and the “new man” of the Zionist revolution
CHAPTER TWO: Psychoanalytic pioneers and their discontents
CHAPTER THREE: We’ve lost Berlin
CHAPTER FOUR: Migration and interpretation
CHAPTER FIVE: Homegrown psychoanalysis
CHAPTER SIX: A psychoanalytic midrash EPILOGUE: Dynamite in the house REFERENCES
INDEX
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