MA'ARAG: The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis is a democratic forum for psychoanalytic research, practice, and criticism published through the initiative and cooperation of the Sigmund Freud Center for Study and Research in Psychoanalysis of the Hebrew University, Israeli Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity, Israel Society for Analytical Psychology, Israel Psychoanalytic Society, Israel Institute for Group Analysis, Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and the Israel Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. This issue contains the following essays: Hila Elyakam and Devora Rosner-Wachs | THE ROLE OF THE BODY EN ROUTE TO BUILDING THE BIONIAN CONTAINER: INTEGRATING SOMATIC EXPERIENCE AND PSYCHODYNAMIC PYCHOTHERAPY Dana Amir | STUDIUM AND PUNCTUM IN PSYCHOANALYTIC WRITING Dana Amir | THE ‘NEWSPEAK’ OF THE PERPETRATOR: REFLECTIONS ON THE PHENOMENON OF SCREEN CONFESSIONS Dorit Ashur | FREUD AS “MIDWIFE TO THE SOUL”: THE RESTORATION OF MATERNAL SEMIOTIC PROFUSION IN H.D.’S ANALYSIS WITH FREUD Micha Weiss | ETHICAL PRESENCE IN THE PSYCHOANALYTIC ENCOUNTER: APOLOGY AS A POSSIBILITY Naomi Teller | TWO POEMS: TO CONTAIN DESIRE Moshe Landau | ON TRANSFORMATION FROM CHAOS AND BECOMING TO RHYTHM AND MENTALIZATION, AND THE RHYTHM IN THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS FROM ‘O’ TO ‘K’ Rivka Matzner | PSYCHOANALYTIC CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MEETING POINT BETWEEN THE LURIANIC CONCEPT OF “LIGHTS AND VESSELS” AND BION’S CONCEPT OF “CONTAINER-CONTAINED” Ruth Netzer | ‘LISTEN TO HER’: POEMS ON THE ANALYST-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP Gila Ofer, Batya Shoshani and Michael Shoshani | WHEN ONE PLUS ONE EQUALS ONE: THE VICISSITUDES OF CHOSING BETWEEN TRUTH AND BLINDNESS IN THE OEDIPAL MYTH, AND THE FILM “INCENDIES” Gal Kachman | SILENT GRAVES AND TRANSIENT LIFE: ON SUBJECTIVITY AND MELANCHOLY IN THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM AND TOROK Victor Rubinov | THE CAPACITY FOR SUBJECTIVITY Merav Roth | TEARING UP THE LETTER AND THE URGE TO GET RID OF THE OBJECT Alejandra Sternschein | MY LANGUAGE, MY SPEECH, AND MY EXPRESSION: REFLECTIONS ON MULTIPLE LANGUAGES IN THE PSYCHIC SPACE OF THE ANALYTIC PROCESS Ofer Shinar Levanon | BETWEEN THE PSYCHOANALYTIC AND THE ARTISTIC ENCOUNTER: REFLECTIONS ON THE SHARED WORK OF THE COMPOSER YONI RECHTER AND THE POETS AVRAHAM HALFI, DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH AND ELI MOHAR

MA‘ARAG : The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis is a democratic forum for psychoanalytic research, practice, and criticism published through the initiative and cooperation of the Sigmund Freud Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis of the Hebrew University and the Israeli Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity, the Israel Society for Analytical Psychology, the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, the Israel Institute for Group Analysis, the Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology, and the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. The articles in this volume: “TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE”—IS THAT THE QUESTION? A CLINICAL TALE - Rony Alfandary THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST’S SELF-DISCLOSURE OF COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN SAMENESS AND OTHERNESS IN THE TREATMENT OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER - Liat Warhaftig Aran THE LITERARY DOUBLE AS SYMPTOM OF FAILURE IN SEPARATION-INDIVIDUATION:`DORIT RABINIAN’S OUR WEDDINGS AS CASE STUDY - Michal Tal FOUR POEMS: ‘ACTS OF CREATION’ (MA’ASEY BEREISHIT) - Naomi Teller THE SEXUAL SUBJECT: BODY AND OTHERNESS - Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot DISRUPTION OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST’S ABILITY TO CONTAIN FOLLOWING PERSONAL CRISIS: THREAT TO TREATMENT ALONGSIDE POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH - Rany Levi “AS HE WAS YET SPEAKING, THERE CAME ALSO ANOTHER, AND SAID…” INTIMATE SEXUALITY FOLLOWING BEREAVEMENT - Michal Nir MYTHS AND RITUALS: SEARCHING FOR THE IMMORTAL AND THE ETERNAL, FROM RELIGIOUS RITUAL TO PSYCHOTHERAPY RITUAL - Ruth Netzer NON-DUALITY:A ZEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ‘BODY’ AND ‘LANGUAGE’ IN PSYCHOANALYSIS - Yorai Sella FACING THE PAINFUL TRUTH:ON THE ROAD TO RECONCILIATION AND FORGIVENESS - Gila Ofer ON FREE ASSOCIATION - Victor Rubinov IS THE ANALYST’S CURIOSITY EMPATHIC? MODALITIES OF WONDERMENT AND THE SELFOBJECT’S INQUIRY - Liran Rogev TRIADIC DIMENSIONS OF PERVERSION:FAILURE TO THINK, MOURN AND LOVE. - Michael Shoshani and Batya Shoshani

MA‘ARAG : The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis is a democratic forum for psychoanalytic research, practice, and criticism published through the initiative and cooperation of the Sigmund Freud Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis of the Hebrew University and the Israeli Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity, the Israel Society for Analytical Psychology, the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, the Israel Institute for Group Analysis, the Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology, and the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. The articles in this volume: CAN THE “UNSPEAKABLE” SPEAK: THE SYMBOLIC, REAL, AND IMAGINARY ACCORDING TO LACAN, DELEUZE AND GUATTARI, AND BUTLER Efrat Even Tzur WHEN LANGUAGE MEETS TRAUMATIC LACUNA: MODES OF WITNESSING, MODES OF HEALING Dana Amir WORKING THROUGH THE TERMINATION OF PSYCHODYNAMIC TREATMENT THROUGH DREAMS Tsvi Gil “LESS, BUT STILL PAINFUL:” A PSYCHO-MYTHIC ANALYSIS OF COUPLES LOVE, ITS VICISSITUDES AND CRISES Shai Gil THE SWISH OF THE SELF’S WINGS:GRAPPLING WITH THE PLETHORA OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORIES Shmuel Gerzi TWO POEMS: REVERIE UPON MOTHER AND CHILD, WORDS THAT HEAL Naomi Teller “DISCOVERING AN UNEXPLORED REGION OF THE HUMAN SOUL:” READING THE WOLF MAN’S MEMOIRS Anat Tzur Mahalel THE STORIES OF BRUNO SCHULZ AND THEIR CLOSE CORRELATION TO JUNGIAN MOTIFS Ruth Netzer THE DEATH OF THE WITNESS DURING THE ERA OF WITNESSING: PRIMO LEVI AND GEORGE PEREC Yochai Ataria “HER BEAUTY IS UNKNOWN:” PSYCHOANALYTIC EXPLORATIONS OF DONALD MELTZER’S CONCEPT OF THE AESTHETIC OBJECT Irit Klein THE INTERNAL WITNESS AND THE TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER OF READING LITERATURE Merav Roth

MA‘ARAG: The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis is a democratic forum for psychoanalytic research, practice, and criticism published through the initiative and cooperation of the Sigmund Freud Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis of the Hebrew University and the Israeli Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity, the Israel Society for Analytical Psychology, the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, the Israel Institute for Group Analysis, the Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology, and the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. The articles in this volume: Aviel Oren - PLAY OF DREAMS, DREAMS ABOUT PLAY: ON DREAM SPACE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PLAY THERAPY WITH CHILDREN Omri Bichovski - IS METAPHYSICS HYSTERIA? Gal Ventura - THE DEAD MOTHER, THE UNCANNY AND THE ANXIETY OF MODERNITY Ditza Hananel - REMARKS ON THE RELATION BETWEEN MOTHER AND SON IN THE EARLY STAGE OF THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot - TRUTH AXES AND THE MULTILINGUAL MIND: THEORY AND TECHNIQUE IN THE MIRROR OF TRUTH Moshe Landau - THOUGHT, MEANING AND ANTI-MEANING: DEVELOPMENT OF THE AESTHETIC DIMENSION OF MIND Gabi (Gabriela) Mann - FLEXIBLE WALLS: THE ANALYTIC FRAME (‘SETTING’) AS THE CURATIVE CONTEXT Ruth Netzer - BEYOND ACTIVE GOODNESS: ON PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND JUDAISM Yorai Sella - THE SENSE OF SENSE: A REVISED PERSPECTIVE ON THE SCHIZOID DILEMMA IN LIGHT OF WINNICOTT’S CONCEPT OF THE TRUE SELF AND MERLEAU-PONTY’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE BODY Yochai Ataria - TRAUMA AS A BLACK HOLE IN THE HEART OF CULTURE: THE PASSAGE FROM INDIVIDUAL TO SOCIETY Roey Shopen - FROM THE PAGES OF A DIARY TO THE GAZE OF THE OTHER: AN ANALYSIS OF LEAH GOLDBERG’S DIARY AND DIARY WRITING AS AN ESSENTIAL PHENOMENON FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF SELF AUTONOMY

MA‘ARAG: The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis is a democratic forum for psychoanalytic research, practice, and criticism published through the initiative and cooperation of the Sigmund Freud Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis of the Hebrew University and the Israeli Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity, the Israel Society for Analytical Psychology, the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, the Israel Institute for Group Analysis, the Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology, and the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. The articles in this Volume: Efrat Even-Tzur - MORAL ACTION BY WAY OF FREE WILL FROM A PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWPOINT: A LACANIAN READING OF FREUD AND KANT Dudi (Yehudah) Alon - “IDENTIFICATION” AND “CANNIBALISM” IN FREUD’S THOUGHT: CONCEPTS THAT ILLUSTRATE DELEUZE’S AND GUATTARI’S NOTION OF RHIZOMATIC THINKING Rivah Altman - “WHO IS COMING AFTER ME?” TWO MODES OF SIBLING TRANSFERENCE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY Rony Alfandary - DREAMING IN ALEXANDRIA: A PSYCHOANALYTICAL STUDY OF LAWRENCE DURRELL’S THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET Ruth Gat-Dubrov - ‘WETTING’ IN A SEA OF TEARS: THE JOURNEY FROM SYMPTOM TO THE OTHER Ditza Hananel - THE RAPE COMPLEX AND THE FEMININE OEDIPUS COMPLEX Joseph Triest - SEXUALITY AND ITS UNIQUE ROLE IN CONSTITUTING THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SUBJECT IN TERMS OF BODY-EGO AND OBJECT-EGO Refael Yonatan Leus - THE PRE-TRAUMATIC ZIONIST DREAM: A FREUDIAN STUDY OF BIBLICAL ETYMOLOGICAL INTERPERTATIONS OF THE NAME ‘ZION’ Ruth Netzer - FROM THE “TOTEMIC FEAST” TO THE “PEACHES OF ETERNITY:” FOOD SYMBOLISM FROM THE KITCHEN OF THE SOUL FROM A JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVE Shani Samai - THE LINES PLAY THEMSELVES: READING ‘THE THREE-LEGGED CHICKEN’ BY Y. KENAZ IN THE LIGHT OF DELEUZE’S AND GUATTARI’S CONCEPT OF ‘BECOMING’ Inbal Raz Brakin - REGARDING THE NAME-OF-THE-FATHER, THE DISCOURSE OF DESIRE, AND DEBT: A LACANIAN INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLICAL STORY OF MIRIAM THE PROPHETESS Michael Shoshani and Batya Shoshani - A TWISTED MOTHER-SON COALITION LEADING TO PERVERSE NARCISSISTIC SELF-CONFIGURATION

MA‘ARAG : The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis is a democratic forum for psychoanalytic research, practice, and criticism published through the initiative and cooperation of the Sigmund Freud Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis of the Hebrew University and the Israeli Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity, the Israel Society for Analytical Psychology, the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, the Israel Institute for Group Analysis, the Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology, and the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. The articles in this volume: Aviel Oren and Gaby Shefler - AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF KLEINIAN THEORY: THE PARANOID-SCHIZOID AND DEPRESSIVE POSITIONS AND THE RELATION BETWEEN SPLITTING AND PSYCHIC DISTRESS Dana Amir - PERVERSION: FROM EMPTY EVENT TO EVENT WITHOUT A WITNESS Gideon Lev - DENIGRATION, INDIFFERENCE, FASCINATION: PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACHES TO FAITH Ofir Levi - THE ROLE OF HOPE IN PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH CHRONIC AND COMPLICATED POST-TRAUMATIC REACTIONS Moshe Halevi Spero - A BRIEF NOTE REGARDING THE HEBREW TRANSLATION OF FREUD’S CONCEPT OF NACHTRÄGLICHKEIT Emanuel Amrami - THE ANALYTIC TRI-COLLAGE: COMBINING ALIEN THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES DURING CLINICAL WORK Beatriz Priel - PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TRANSLATION: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ESSAY Guy Perel - FROM THE ‘WALL’ TO THE ‘MOJO’ WITH WINGED SANDALS: A JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVE ON LONG-DISTANCE RUNNING Michael Shoshani and Batya Shoshani - BORGES ALONGSIDE THE ANALYTIC COUCH: THE ANALYSIS OF A MAN WHO DWELLED OUTSIDE TIME Meir Chelouche - GRANDPARENTS AND THEIR GRANDCHILDREN: PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES Ofrit Shapira-Berman and Michal Waldman - A SONATA FOR TWO: PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES AMONG PSYCHOTHERAPISTS WHO GREW UP IN CHILDREN’S HOSTELS ON THE KIBBUTZ

The articles in this volume: BETWEEN MAN AND HIS FELLOW, BETWEEN MAN AND GOD: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SPIRITUAL PATHWAYS By Cobi Avshalom ANOTHER FACE IN THE MIRROR: LOOKING AT OTHERNESS IN TREATMENT FROM A RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE By Chana Ullman THE SPLIT BETWEEN THE VOICE AND MEANING: THE DUAL FUNCTION OF PSYCHOTIC SYNTAX By Dana Amir (UN)TOUCHED BY WORDS: PSYCHOANALYTIC WRITINGS ON MUSIC; MUSICAL ASPECTS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS By Odelia Hitron ON THE EXPERIENCE OF SELF AS OBJECT AND SUBJECT WITH NOTES ON THE CONCEPT OF THE THIRD By Ditza Hananel “BUT WHY?” FREUD’S “MOURNING AND MELANCHOLIA” FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE By Rina Lazar A BRIEF NOTE REGARDING THE PROPER HEBREW TRANSLATION FOR BION’S TERM “REVERIE” By Moshe Halevi Spero

The articles in this volume: Gaby Shefler - PROLOGUE: HEBRAIC PSYCHOANALYSIS-PSYCHOANALYSIS IN HEBREW Moshe Halevi Spero - THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANALYSIS AND ANALYTIC LANGUAGE: INTRODUCTION TO THE PREMIER ISSUE OF MAARAG: THE ISRAEL ANNUAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Cobi Avshalom - THE ANALYTIC COMPASS Hagit Aharoni - PLACENTAL ECONOMY: THOUGHTS ON THE MOVEMENT BETWEEN LINKAGE AND SEPARATENESS AND THEIR PARADOXICAL COEXISTENCE Shmuel Bernstein - THE SECRET OF YOUTH: THE SECRET AS A CHANGE AGENT DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS Oded Goldberg - KING DAVID, HIS SON ABSALOM, AND THE ROLE OF THE FATHER IN THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX Nimrod Golan - WHAT DOES GIACOMETTI SEE? BECOMING A SELFOBJECT IN THE ARTIST’S WORK Ditza Hananel - THE WINNICOTTIAN INTERSUBJECTIVE SUBJECT AS METAPHOR FOR THE DIALECTICS OF ANALYTIC THERAPY: ON THE EXPERIENTIAL ASPECT OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Gideon Lev - FROM SCULPTING TO PAINTING: THE GOALS OF TREATMENT IN AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE 1950s AND THE 1990s FROM A SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Itamar Levi - THE HOME AND THE ROAD Rina Lazar - "INFINITE CONVERSATION”: THE WORK OF THE UNCONSCIOUS THE VARIOUS FACES OF CONTEXUALITY Gabriela Mann - BETWEEN ONENESS AND DUALITY IN SELF PSYCHOLOGY AND IN RELATIONAL INTERSUBJECTIVITY Tami Pollak - THE CONFLUENCE BETWEEN CONCEPTUAL AND PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION AS VIEWED THROUGH BION’S GRID Raanan Kulka - THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF SELF PSYCHOLOGY Alina Schellekes - WHEN TIME STOOD STILL: THOUGHTS REGARDING THE DIMENSION OF TIME IN PRIMITIVE MENTAL STATES