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The yetzer : a Kabbalistic psychology of eroticism and human sexuality

Title
The yetzer : a Kabbalistic psychology of eroticism and human sexuality / Mordechai Rotenberg.
Author
Rotenberg, Mordechai.
Publication
Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, ©1997.

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Description
xx, 184 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Sex > Religious aspects > Judaism
  • Yetzer hara (Judaism)
  • Cabala > History
  • Spiritual life > Judaism
  • Judaism and psychology
  • Cabala
  • Kabbala
  • Erotik
  • Sexualität
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.
Contents
1. Creation and Procreation. The Sex-Celibacy Pendulum. Emanation and Contraction as Paradigms of Creation. Contraction and Emanation as Reading and Writing -- 2. The "Yetzer" as Creative Neurosis. Sublimation and Dispensation of Sexuality. "To Be in ... the Closet" The "Yetzer-Yetzira" Continuum. The Yetzer and Romantic Imagination -- 3. Ecstasy and Spiritual Sexuality. What Constitutes an Ecstatic Experience? Greco-Protestant Controlling Sexuality. Manic Disorder versus Creative Ecstasy. Kabbalistic Sexuality as Spiritual Energy. The Psychotic-Erotic Energy of Mr. E. "Devekut" as "Spiritual Orgasm" -- 4. Romantic Flirting versus Sexual Harassment. "Alien Thoughts" and "Transference" Seduction and Rape. The "Peer Consent" Trap. Kierkegaard's Seduction Style. Harassing the "Flirter" "Aggressiveness" Is the Reincarnation of Emanation -- 5. The "Mystic Closet" of Romantic Flirting and Prophetic Imagination. Romantic Flirting and the "Mystic Closet" Ecstatic Prophecy and Imagination. The Romantic Component in the "Song of Songs" The "Yetzer-Yetzira" Genre and the "Musar" Movement -- 6. The Patriarchic Pendulum and the Balancing "Jewish Mother" The Creative Pendulum: Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Kafka. "Phallocratic Aggressertiveness" and Masochism. The Theory of "Vaginal Envy" The "Jewish Mother" and "Creative Neurosis" -- 7. The "Yetzer" in the Socio-psychological Therapy Room. Clinical Training. Contraction and Impotency. Patriarchism as Imperialistic Missionarism.
ISBN
  • 1568218982
  • 9781568218984
LCCN
96033126
OCLC
  • ocm35128220
  • 35128220
  • SCSB-2121380
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library