The Psychology of Tzimtzum: Self, Other, and God (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781592643844)

Western psychology often describes relationships between parent and child, individual and society, man's physical and spiritual urges as a complex set of conflicts, an ongoing struggle for dominance. In The Psychology of Tzimtzum, Professor Mordechai Rotenberg seeks to establish an alternative: a Jewish psychology, based on the kabbalistic concept of Tzimtzum (self-contraction). God's primordial act of Creation, contracting Himself to make room for the world, becomes for Rotenberg a model for all human interaction. When the self contracts to make room for the other, the resulting relations are ones of dialogue rather than conflict, self-effacement rather than self-assertion, a desire to give rather than a desire to destroy. The Psychology of Tzimtzum introduces the groundbreaking thought of Israel Prize laureate Professor Mordechai Rotenberg, the founding father of Jewish psychology.

Author: Mordechai Rotenberg
ISBN-10: 1592643841
ISBN-13: 9781592643844
Publisher: Maggid
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2016
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d