Introduction

Lewis Aron and Libby Henik

1. DESIRE, LOVE AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF

Rashi and Desire: Reading Rashi¿s Reading of Genesis 39

Cheryl Goldstein

¿The Impressive Caesurä and ¿New Beginning¿ in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Mystical Experience¿Birth, Creation and Transformation

Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel

On Abandoning Aristotle: Love in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Philosophy

William Kolbrener

Bewilderments: The Story of the Spies

Avivah Zornberg

2. TRAUMA AND BREAKDOWN

The ¿Hearing Heart¿ and the ¿Voice¿ of Breakdown

Ofra Eshel

¿Have You Seen My Servant Job?¿ A Psychological Approach to Suffering

Richard Kradin

On the Use of Selected Lead Words in Tracing the Trajectory of the Transmission of Transgenerational Trauma in the Genesis Ancestral Saga

Menorah Lafayette Rotenberg

3. MOURNING, RITUALS AND MEMORY

The ¿Coat of Many Colors¿ as Linking Object: A Nodal Moment in the Narrative of Jacob¿s Bereavement for Joseph

Moshe Halevi Spero

Shadows of the Unseen Grief

Cheryl Friedman

Across a Lifetime: On the Dynamics of Commemorative Ritual

Joyce Slochower

4. HOLOCAUST, INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION AND MEMORY

The Testimonial Process as a Reversal of the Traumatic Shutdown of Narrative and Symbolization

Dori Laub

Holocaust Memories and their Transmission

Annette Furst

In Bed with a Collaborator: Reenactments of Historical Trauma by a Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors

Nirit Gradwohl Pisano

Contributors

Index