Main description:

- will be widely used in the graduate school at the Program in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan (one of the largest and most reputed universities in Israel) - appliable to other universities with humanistic and interdisciplinary studies programs

Contents:

Prologue

Rollo May and R. Joseph Soloveitchik: Psychotherapy and philosophy - Dov Schwartz

From fear to creativity: Melanie Klein's interpretation of literary fiction as conceptual investigations - Dorit Lemberger

Psychoanalysis and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Wittgensteinian-Existential Perspective - Nir Soffer-Dudek

"Look into the Depths within Yourself and Find the Outside World": The Contribution of Rudolf Steiner's Monistic Philosophy to Psychoanalytic Conceptualization - Tali Sella

Malfunctions in the Symbolic Space: A Psychoanalytic-Semiotic View - Sharon Strasburg

"Bring Words back from their Metaphysical to their Everyday Use" - Meaning in Life through Ordinary Language Use - Yael Mishani-Uval

Language game and separations: A psychoanalytic-philosophical view about the infinity of the separation experience - Ophira Schorr Levy

Unhappy-Certainty - Alice Maya Keinan

"Tragic Knots" Following Acquired Chronic Medical Conditions: A Relational Perspective in Psychotherapy in Medical Settings - Orin Segal

Language Games and Private Language, Wizards and Witches: How a child with autism builds their emotional world - A psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary view - Irit Hagai

Self-Constructive vs. Self-Destructive Mechanisms in the Writings of Anorexics - Ruth Kaplan Zarchi

The Land of Shadows and Intuition: Bion's and Wittgenstein's return to Plato's Cave - Ronnie Carmeli

Shades of Loneliness: A Psychoanalytic Study of Samuel Beckett's Rockaby - Tsiky Cohen