Yearnings of the Soul
Subtitle: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Nov 23, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226295800
Description: In this work, Jonathan Garb uncovers a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally: psychology. Returning psychology to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul, he traces the manifold interactions between psychology and spirituality that have arisen over five centuries of Kabbalistic writing, from sixteenth-century Galilee to twenty-first-century New York. In doing so, he shows just how rich Kabbalah's psychological tradition is and how much it can offer to the corpus of modern psychological knowledge.
Notes: Source title: Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah