Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to Now

Nathan Moses Szajnberg is former Freud professor at the Hebrew University and currently a training analyst at Israel Psychoanalytic Society.

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Mimesis: Representation of Inner Reality in Western Mind(s) Chapter 1. Father-Son Reunions: Interpersonal and Inner Lives of Two Ancient Cultures, and Universal Emotions Chapter 2. The Son of God: Figura, or Betzelem Adonai, in the Shadow of God Chapter 3. Ovid's Incarnations: Instability and Its Passionate Inner Causes Chapter 4. Maimonides (12th Century): Concealed and Revealed Life Chapter 5. Dante and Virgil: Rising from Despair (1265-1321) Chapter 6: Shakespeare: The Leap from Lear to Prospero; from Tragic to Wise; from Despair to Integrity (and Self-Reflection) Chapter 7. Rousseau's Confessions and the Birth of Autobiography as a Genre (and Its Twin--Inner Development) (1700s) Chapter 8. Enchanting Tales, Enchanted Children: The Timelessness of Fairy Tales (Ancient Egypt to the Present) Chapter 9. Flaubert: Testing the Tensile Strength Between Style and Character (1800s) Chapter 10. From the "I" to the "We": Saul Bellow's Lifetime Evolution Chapte