TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
3. Acknowledgements 8
4. Introduction 10
5. 1. DESIRE, LOVE AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF
6. Rashi and Desire: Reading Rashi’s Reading of Genesis 39 27
7. “The Impressive Caesura” and “New Beginning” in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Mystical Experience—Birth, Creation and Transformation 40
8. On Abandoning Aristotle: Love in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Philosophy 65
9. Bewilderments: The Story of the Spies 99
10. 2. TRAUMA AND BREAKDOWN
11. The “Hearing Heart” and the “Voice” of Breakdown 133
12. “Have You Seen My Servant Job?” A Psychological Approach to Suffering 153
13. On the Use of Selected Lead Words in Tracing the Trajectory of the Transmission of Transgenerational Trauma in the Genesis Ancestral Saga 176
14. 3. MOURNING, RITUALS AND MEMORY
15. The “Coat of Many Colors” as Linking Object: A Nodal Moment in the Narrative of Jacob’s Bereavement for Joseph 201
16. Shadows of the Unseen Grief 250
17. Across a Lifetime: On the Dynamics of Commemorative Ritual 273
18. 4. HOLOCAUST, INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION AND MEMORY
19. The Testimonial Process as a Reversal of the Traumatic Shutdown of Narrative and Symbolization 301
20. Holocaust Memories and their Transmission 322
21. In Bed with a Collaborator: Reenactments of Historical Trauma by a Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors 345
22. Contributors 367
23. Index 373