A Burning World, an Absent God: Midrash, Hermeneutics, and Relational Psychoanalysis

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-88

  Cushman, Philip ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamentalism; Hermeneutics; Idolatry; Interpersonal; Interpretation; Judaism; Relational

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247545129     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2007.10745896     Document Type: Article

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