Author: Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb

One of today's most innovative biblical commentators offers a revolutionary analysis of the intersection between religion and psychoanalysis in the stories of the Bible. Drawing on Freud, Winnicott, Laplanche, and other psychoanalytic thinkers, Zornberg gives us a new understanding of the desires and motivations of Adam and Eve, Noah, Jonah, Abraham, Ruth, Esther and many others. She also makes a powerful argument that the midrashic, medieval rabbinic, and Hassidic commentators were themselves aware of the complex interplay between conscious and unconscious levels of experience. 464 pp.