Bakan / Merkur / Weiss Maimonides' Cure of Souls

Medieval Precursor of Psychoanalysis
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-2744-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides’ work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bakan, David

Merkur, Dan

Weiss, David S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

1. The Will to Illness

Aristotelian Premises of Maimonides’ Psychology,
Aristotelian Forms, Actualization, Al-Farabi’s Political
Philosophy, Maimonides’ Behavioral Therapy, Sin
Causes Ignorance, Repentance, Conclusions

2. Worship of the Heart

The Commandments of Monotheistic Beliefs and
Affects, Maimonides’ Curriculum, Maimonides’
Intellectualist Mysticism, The Rational Character of
Maimonides’ Intellectualist Mysticism, The Mystical
Character of Maimonides’ Rationalism, Maimonides’
Practice of the Presence of God, The Therapeutic
Effects of Meditation, Conclusions

3. Imagination and the Interpretation of Prophecy

Imagination and Anthropomorphism, Intellectualist
Mysticism and Prophecy, Dreams and Visions of
Prophecy, The Psychology of Imagination, The Place of
Imagination in the Interpretation of Scripture, The
Prophecies of Abraham, Confirmation from Ezekiel,
Conclusions

4. Perplexity and the World to Come

Maimonides’ Esotericism, The World to Come, The
Thirteen Foundational Principles of the Law, The Four
Who Entered Paradise, Monistic Mystical Union,
Conclusions

5. Secrets of the Law

Arayot, The Account of the Beginning, Maimonides on
Sexuality, The Account of the Chariot, Conclusions

6. Maimonides’ Psychotherapy Client Population

7. Convergences of Maimonides and Freud

Freud’s Access to Maimonides, Dream Interpretation,
The Privileged Place of Sexuality, Sociocultural Conflict
Model, Theories of Pathology and Therapy, Psychic
Reality, Understanding on One’s Own, The Unconscious,
Views of Judaism, Prophetic Ambition, Conclusions

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Bakan (1921–2004) was Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University and the author of several books, including Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition. Dan Merkur is Research Reader in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto. He is the author of several books, including Crucified with Christ: Meditations on the Passion, Mystical Death, and the Medieval Invention of Psychotherapy, also published by SUNY Press. David S. Weiss is a Ph.D. Psychologist and a rabbi. He is the President of Weiss International, a leadership consulting firm; an Affiliate Professor at the University of Toronto; and the author of several books, including Beyond the Walls of Conflict.