Know before whom you stand: Mikael Enckell's Companions of the Unknown [Okändhetens följeslagare]. Issue 2 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Titelman, David
• Is Part Of: Scandinavian psychoanalytic review. Volume 39:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 91
• Page End: 97
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Psychoanalysis and Judaism -- revelation -- recovery -- annihilation anxiety -- Frans Rosenzweig; Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; Psychoanalysis -- Scandinavia -- Periodicals; Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; 150.19505
• DOI: 10.1080/01062301.2017.1287153
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0106-2301

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Mikael Enckell's book is discussed as a combined self-analytic tour de force and psychoanalytic supplement to Jewish philosophy represented by Frans Rosenzweig and others. The author discusses Enckell's views on the roots of psychoanalysis in Jewish thought, anti-Semitism, historiography, the importance of human dialogue, revelation and psychic integration, atheism, and the nature of recovery in psychoanalysis. Enckell's views of a triad of human activities open to conflict and ambiguity – Judaism, poetry, and psychoanalysis – are supplemented by a short discussion on the role of annihilation anxiety in these areas.