Trust and Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Study in Human Nature

ISBN-13: 9780367458706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 120 str.

Michael Oppenheim

Opis

This interdisciplinary text brings together perspectives from leading psychoanalysts and modern Jewish philosophers to offer a unique investigation into the dynamic between the fundamental trust in the self, other persons and the world, and the devastating force of emotional trauma.

Spis treści

Introduction: "Turn it and turn it, for all is in it"; Chapter 1: "The Moral Third": Jessica Benjamin’s examination of collective and individual trauma; Chapter 2: Psychological perspectives on trust and trauma; Chapter 3: Not "Any Tom, Dick, and Harry": Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber confront the Holocaust; Chapter 4: Jewish philosophical perspectives on trust and trauma; Chapter 5: Two discourses: Distinctive approaches, intriguing correlations; Conclusion: An interdisciplinary study in human nature

O autorze

Michael Oppenheim is a distinguished professor emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal. His most recent book is Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Modern Jewish Philosophy: Two Languages of Love (Routledge, 2017).