Birth and Psychoanalysis

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Around table discussion on Dr Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel’s book “Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis” (De Gruyter 2022)

A conversation between Dr Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa; Rabbi Dr Tali Artman Partock, who teaches Judaism at the University of Cambridge and the rabbi of Sukkat Shalom Synagogue; and Dr Yael Pilowsky Bankirer, a psychoanalyst and member of the Site.

The three women discuss the book “Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis” , which examines the experience of birth through the ages as a metaphor foundational to all fields of art, philosophy, religion and literature. It highlights the significance of birth in Jewish culture, as a challenge to existential philosophy and the centrality of death in Western culture. Rabbi Dr Tali speaks of pre-life, after-life and the problem of separation while Dr Pilowsky Bankirer talks about the maternal, the womb and the Bionian no-thing.