{"id":5040,"date":"2016-12-01T22:06:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&p=5040"},"modified":"2016-12-05T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:43:32","slug":"talking-about-evil-psychoanalytic-social-and-cultural-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/talking-about-evil-psychoanalytic-social-and-cultural-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about Evil: Psychoanalytic, Social, and Cultural Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edited by Rina Lazar <\/strong>(Israel)<\/p>\n

\"lazarcoverart1116w\"How can we talk about evil? How can we make sense of its presence all around us? How can we come to terms with the sad fact that our involvement in doing or enabling evil is an interminable aspect of our lives in the world? This edited volume (Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series, 2017) is an attempt to engage these questions in a new way.<\/p>\n

Written from within the complicated reality of Israel, the contributors to this book forge a collective effort to think about evil from multiple perspectives. This is a necessary effort since psychoanalysis has been slow to account for the existence of evil, while philosophy and the social sciences have tended to neglect its psychological aspects.<\/p>\n

The essays collected here join to form a wide canvas on which a portrait of evil gradually emerges, from the Bible, through the enlightenment, to the Holocaust; from Kant, through Freud, Klein, Bromberg, and Stein, to Arendt, Agamben, and Bauman; using literature, history, cinema, social theory, and psychoanalysis. Talking about Evil<\/em> opens up a much needed space for thinking, in itself an antidote to evil. It will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as scholars and students of philosophy, social theory, and the humanities.<\/p>\n

Contributors Include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction \u2013 Rina Lazar
\n1: Yolanda Gampel – Evil
\n2: Yaron Senderovic – The Banality of Radical Evil
\n3: Boaz Shalgi – From the Universal to the Particular: An Intersubjective
\nPsychoanalytic View of Evil and Law
\n4: Amos Goldberg -Three Forms of Post-Genocidal Violence in Beni Wircberg’s
\nMemoir
\n5: Michael Gluzman – The Two Holocausts of Avot Yeshurun
\n6: Joshua Durban – From “The Scream” to “The Pieta”: Murderous Mourning and Evil
\n7: Michal Ben-Naftali – Reflections on “Doing Evil”
\n8: Moshe Zuckerman – The Evil of Banality in the Modern Era: Remarks on Hannah
\nArendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem”
\n9: Shlomo Biderman – The Kingdom of Evil
\n10: David Kitron – On Godly Evil, Human Evil and Humanism
\n11: Shai Biderman – A Touch of Evil: Cinematic Perspectives
\n12: Merav Roth – The Restorative Power of Reading Literature – From Evil to Dialectics
\n13: Rina Lazar – Talking about Evil in Retrospect: Trying to Conceive the Inconceivable<\/p>\n

Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEvil is not a new topic. However, the Holocaust, manifold military conflicts, the emergence of ethnic and forced migration waves, and the rise in corruption require that we situate it in the different contexts where it acquires meaning. Evil is an action that threatens the ethics of life and causes the collapse of essential values. What place does it occupy in our minds, in human relations, in psychoanalytic practice? Evil creates a category that defies psychology manuals. Defining it accurately is a pressing need, because be it natural, rational, irrational, or banal, evil lies on the border between the sayable and the bearable. This book offers a unique and important effort to address these old yet timely questions. Drawing on a truly interdisciplinary range of contributors–philosophers, psychoanalysts, historians, sociologists, literary scholars, and theologians–this book achieves an unusual breadth of engagement with the question of evil in its many contexts and effects. It will become a necessary reference for scholars and practitioners in many fields of thought and research.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Janine Puget,
\nsenior p<\/em>sychoanalyst, Buenos Aires;
\nSigourney Award-Winning author of Discontinuous Subjectivation and Psychoanalysis: Uncertainty and Certainties (2015); numerous other <\/em>contributions to psychoanalysis<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis book on evil amounts to a great deal: it counters the \u2018evil-skeptics\u2019 who believe that the concept of evil has no explanatory power and that all it does is to serve as a rhetorical device of strong condemnation. Evil, the book tells us, is manifested by morally despicable acts, but despicable doesn’t mean ineffable. By looking at evil from diverse disciplines and varied points of view, the essays in the book make a genuine contribution in answering two vital questions: why morally despicable actions are done, and whether the people who are doing evil are constitutionally different from people who don’t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2013 Avishai<\/em> Margalit,
\nProfessor Emeritus of<\/em> Philosophy at the Hebrew University of<\/em> Jerusalem;
\nGeorge F. Kennan Professor at the I<\/em>nstitute for Advanced Study in Princeton;
\nwinner of Israel Prize for philosophy (2010) and Ernest Bloch Prize (2012);
\nauthor of The Ethics of Memory (2002) and On Compromise and Rotten Compromises (<\/em>2009)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis compelling set of meditations on evil will consistently engage all who are troubled by the paradoxical human propensity toward inhumanity. In their entirety, the essays provide a remarkable wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary conversation about the problematics of understanding evil. As individual contributions, each essay offers a unique and deeply thought-provoking perspective on those aspects of the human condition that permit the violent erasure of other humans. In all, this captivating and enlightening book yields a rare amalgam of psychoanalytic, philosophical, and historical insights into our most bedeviling concerns in a manner that adds a hopeful wisdom to our struggles toward a humane world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u2013 <\/em>Sam Gerson, Ph<\/em>D<\/em>,
\nfounder and past-p<\/em>resident of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP) and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Editor <\/em>of<\/em> Studies in Gender and Sexuality and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and winner of <\/em>the <\/em>Elise M. Hayman Award for the Stud<\/em>y of Genocide and the Holocaust (2007)<\/em><\/p>\n

Link: https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Talking-about-Evil-Psychoanalytic-Social-and-Cultural-Perspectives\/Lazar\/p\/book\/9781138100596<\/a><\/p>\n

\"lazarphoto1014www\"Rina Lazar, Ph.D.<\/strong> is a clinical psychologist in Tel Aviv. She is a lecturer and supervisor at the Psychotherapy Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. She is also a board member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). Lazar has co-edited two books and published papers on a range of topics in various psychoanalytic journals.<\/p>\n

Rina Lazar, PhD
\n<\/strong>Ramot Naftali 9
\nTel Aviv Israel 69278
\nEmail Rina Lazar<\/a><\/p>\n

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