God, biblical stories, and psychoanalytic understanding / [print]
Rainer Kessler, Patrick Vandermeersch (editions.).
- Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, (c)2001.
- 198 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Psychoanalytic interpretations of religious texts. Some basics Psychoanalysis as a hermeneutical tool: the example of Ex. 4:24-26 The Oedipus Complex in the Book of Esther The Saul-David story from a Kleinian perspective. God, prophets, women and the lack of tragedy The creation of Eve and the ambivalence between the sexes The woman figure in the narrations of the creation according to rabbinical literature The woman in Midrash Esther Rabba Object relations theory and the representation of God. The contribution of Ana-Maria Rizzuto "Vengeance is mine". some remarks on concepts of divine vengeance and wrath in the Hebrew Bible Gnostic hermeneutics Looking back at Sodom. Psychoanalysis and diachronic reading P. Vandermeersch -- R. Kessler -- H. Raguse -- J. Carlander -- P.E. Jongsma-Tieleman / -- J. Ribera and E. Giralt -- E. Cortes -- C. Thierfelder -- E. Noort -- G. Luttikhuizen -- P. Vandermeersch.