Freud and the Melancholy Rabbi

A Novel
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78220-405-3
Verlag: Karnac Books

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: The Karnac Library

'One day they will say that Sigmund Freud read the Law with a rabbi, and no one will believe it.'Vienna, 1903, and two unlikely figures meet: Rashab, the fifth Rabbi of Lubavitch, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. Rashab has journeyed from Lubavitch to Vienna with his son, his future successor; the paralysis in his arm and a persistent stutter leading him to this consultation with Freud.The two men discuss their ideologies - bringing in Kabbalah, psychoanalysis, faith, science - shining a light on their own fears and internal struggles. Freud analyses the details yet further with his distinguished pupil Wilhelm Stekel.Taking place in a rapidly changing world, this book records a brief meeting between two individuals whose contrasting beliefs will shape the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stein, Itzik

Über Autor(innen)

Stein, Itzik
Itzik Stein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1954. He studied Arts in Buenos Aires before completing his studies in Sociology and Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel. A scholar of Jewish philosophy, he has participated in seminars and lectures on Jewish matters such as religion and assimilation, people and nation, and the dilemma of being Jewish. He has actively participated in Hebrew organizations, generating new perspectives of ancestral matters. In 2005 he published his first book, 'Malvados, malditos e infames en la Biblia' ('The Evil, the Damned, and the Infamous in the Bible'), offering a different perspective on vilified characters in the Old Testament.