The Religious Imagination: A Study in Psychoanalysis And Jewish Theology

Controversial rabbi and theologian Richard L. Rubenstein argues here that the psychological mechanisms of powerlessness inherent in Jewish theology have, in light of the Nazi holocaust, made the traditional body of JEwish legend and belief obsolete. In so doing, Rubenstein combines a Freudian psychoanalytic framework with a study of the oral tradition of rabbis, or Aggadah, the single most important repository of the Judaic unconscious.