This book takes an innovative approach to psychoanalysis. Instead of following well known and predictable Oedipal themes, it offers to investigate the practice used by psychoanalysts in therapy.
Is there really Freedom? By following the philosophical debate on this issue, the book probes the ethical and existential aspirations of opposing theoretical views, and advances an inspiring vision of human freedom firmly embedded within nature.
Mordecai is Riding a Horse
Purim Celebrations in Tel-Aviv (1908-1936) and the Building of a New Nation By Hizky Shoham May 2013 Paperback Danacode 110-20192 In Stock
The book presents a description of Purim celebrations in Tel-Aviv and their development from the end of Ottoman period until their cessation in 1936 and highlights the unique role of the concept of tradition in the creation of the new nation.
Fractured Mirror
On Creation of the Self in Wittgenstein and Murdoch By Yoav Ashkenazy January 2013 Paperback Danacode 110-20190 In Stock
This book questions the meaning of moral discourse and of the place of literature and philosophy in the context of the inner moral domain, and aims to expose the therapeutic possibilities found in reading and writing literature and philosophy.
The “optional cinema model” that is revealed in this book allows the author to present a unique interpretative-philosophical view of the films discussed in the book.
Inner Religion
The Phenomenology of Inner Religious Life and its Manifestation in Jewish Sources (from the Bible to Hasidic Texts) By Ron Margolin December 2011 Paperback Danacode 110-20174 In Stock
This book examines the concept of inner religion as manifest in Judaism from bibilical times to the early days of Baal Shem Tov Hasidism in the light of religious studies. The book`s analysis of the six dimensions of interior religion in diverse...
A QUESTION OF TIME
BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS By Joel Pearl August 2011 Paperback Danacode 110-20167 In Stock
In the book A Question of Time, Joel Pearl proposes a new interpretation of the basis of psychoanalytical thought that reveals the basic deficiency in psychoanalysis since its inception. Pearl returns to the moment of the birth of psychoanalysis...
It is a widespread conception that prayer is the essence of religious fulfillment. In the eyes of many, prayer can be understood only on the assumption that it is an appeal to God. Moreover, even the prayers of non-believers are perceived as a s...
This book presents Chomsky as a first rate philosopher. Chomsky`s linguistic theory is interpreted (in a Dworkian constructivist sense of the term ``interpretation``) as expressing three substantial and grounded philosophical contentions that ar...
Signs of Enjoyment
A Lacanian Reading of the Poetry of Yonah Wallach and David Avidan By Inbal Raz Barkin October 2010 Danacode 110-20158 In Stock
Jacques Lacan is known not only as a revolutionary and significant psychoanalyst, but also as the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. His psychoanalytical theory, founded on the basic Freudian concepts, introduces a new and unique set ...