TITLE: SIGMUND FREUD AND THE JEWISH  MYSTICAL TRADITION AUTHOR: Bakan, David ISBN pb: 1 85343 142 7 PAGES: 325 LIST PRICE pb: £ 15.95 ($ 25.00) PUB DATE: 1990

 
 

DESCRIPTION: Bakan challenges the commonly held view of Freud that he was a patently secular, rationally and scientifically-orientated intellectual, educated in modern culture and with only a modicum of formal Jewish education.  He argues that Freud was influenced in his major and revolutionary life work by a mystical tradition that he seemed to know little about, and which, as a mysticism, would be antithetical to science.