PSYCHOANALYSIS - A JEWISH DISCIPLINE - ON THE RESISTANCE TO TRADITIONAND STRANGENESS

On one hand, one can see from psychoanalytic treatments and publicatio ns that there exist unconscious prejudices and a specific transference in which psychoanalysis seems to be a Jewish discipline and the psych oanalyst to be in possession of power; money and secret knowledge. On the other hand, and from the standpoint of traditional Judaism as refl ected in the rabbinical tradition (Talmud), one can say that psychoana lysis is a modern form of dispute about tradition, strangeness and the unspeakable. Through the attempt to trace the Jewish roots of psychoa nalysis, one possible answer will be given to the question of what the essence of psychoanalysis could be.