The Genius of Genesis: A Psychoanalyst and Rabbi Examines the First Book of the Bible Dennis G. Shulman. New York (NY): iUniverse Inc; 2003. 194 p. US$43.95.
Reviewer rating: Excellent
This scholarly and engaging book is written from a personal perspective. There are 21 pages of notes and 10 pages of references. Shulman's dual vocations of psychoanalyst and rabbi enable him to demonstrate parallels between, and convergences in, Genesis and the psychoanalytic canon. His book leads inexorably to the conclusion that much of what psychoanalysis has discovered in the last 100 years was, to some extent, anticipated by the author(s) of Genesis over 2 millennia ago. Shulman actually …
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