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Edited by Mortimer Ostow. New York: KTAV, 1982, ix + 305 pp., $20.00.
Ostow presents nine essays selected to meet the criterion of sophisticated up-to-date knowledge and scholarship both in the area of psychoanalysis and Judaic studies. The book, however, does not have a unifying theme.
In "Judaism and Psychoanalysis," written by Ostow especially for this book, the author suggests that Judaism and psychoanalysis share a belief in the power of knowledge and the notion that
salvation, though conceptualized differently, can be obtained by virtue of special knowledge
(p. 3). Ostow, in a scholarly manner, makes comparisons indicating that Judaism and psychoanalysis seek knowledge that goes deeper than surface manifestations and that, in both, the mystical element is very significant.
Ostow then discusses the "marginality" of the Jews in society and