Vered Lev Kenaan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vered Lev Kenaan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vered Lev |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenaan |
| SIGNATURE | KENAAN V L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3966-8991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Silent Witnesses
Silent Witnesses:The Testimony of Objects in Holocaust Poetry and Prose Leora Bilsky (bio) and Vered Lev Kenaan1 (bio) The Holocaust brought about a crisis of testimony that led to critical engagement with the limits of representation by lawyers, historians, psychoanalysts, and poets. This question was first addressed by the architects of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (1945) who preferred incriminating documents produced by the…
Digging with Freud
Feminist and postcolonial studies have often criticized Freudian psychoanalysis for staging the analysis of the hysterical, female patient through the metaphor of conquering terra incognita . Freud, in these perspectives, undermines the credibility of her speech by characterizing it as "enigmatic, ungrammatical, disjointed, fragmented and polylingual." Freud also has been often criticized for employing scientific positivism, whose underlying assu…
Response to A.D. Mills Review of The Ancient Unconscious
Response to A.D. Mills Review of The Ancient Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and the Ancient Text Vered Lev Kenaan (bio) Oedipal Time Psychoanalysis has been linked to classical antiquity from its birth. The study of Hellenic and Roman antiquities was a formative inspiration for the development of the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. But how should we today understand the relationship between the study of the Greco-Roman world and the modern …
The Ancient Unconscious
Commonly understood as a modern conceptual invention rather than the discovery of a psychic reality, the notion of the unconscious is often criticized by traditional classicists as an anachronistic lens, one that ineluctably subjects ancient experience to modern patterns of thought. The book challenges this ambivalent theoretical disposition toward the psychoanalytic concept by offering an interpretation of the unconscious, explaining why this co…
Sexuality as Intertextuality
What does it mean to have a feminine voice in a literary world dominated by male authors? What would it mean for the contemporary reader of ancient and medieval texts to be responsive to the distinctiveness of the feminine voice? This article addresses these questions by focusing on an eleventh-century epistolary exchange between the poet and clergyman Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance, a young nun at Le Ronceray Abbey in Angers. This amatory cor…
Spectacles of a Dormant Soul
A comparison between Book 3,21-25 of the Metamorphoses and Plato's Republic 2,359c-360b is pivotal for understanding how Apuleius stages entry into the space of the fantastic. In both episodes, desire, sight and the forbidden collaborate in creating the passage to the world of fiction, shaping it as a dreamlike experience, a psychological event of the unconscious. But the similarity between Plato's and Apuleius' fiction can be illuminated especia…
Artemidorus at the Dream Gates
Ancient conceptualization of dreams is based on a duality that splits the oneiric field into two hierarchically ordered modalities. The opposition between these dream categories finds its clearest expression in Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica, in the distinction between oneiros and enhypnion. This article critically examines Artemidorus’ dualistic terminology. Uncovering the Oneirocritica’s internal inconsistencies, the article aims to show how Artemi…
Thauma Idesthai
Aphrodite
The few ancient authorities that mention the unusual appearance of the Aphrodite express their sense of wonder, but do so without any attempt to decipher its enigmatic meaning. Tacitus emphasizes the obscure meaning of this formless object: sed ratio in obscure . In art history, two common modes of representations of Aphrodite in art history include: the dressed and the naked Aphrodite. Consider, for example, the late fourth-century BC Cypriote s…
The Ancient Unconscious
Commonly understood as a modern conceptual invention rather than the discovery of a psychic reality, the notion of the unconscious is often criticized by traditional classicists as an anachronistic lens, one that ineluctably subjects ancient experience to modern patterns of thought. The book challenges this ambivalent theoretical disposition toward the psychoanalytic concept by offering an interpretation of the unconscious, explaining why this co…
Artemidorus at the Dream Gates
Ancient conceptualization of dreams is based on a duality that splits the oneiric field into two hierarchically ordered modalities. The opposition between these dream categories finds its clearest expression in Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica, in the distinction between oneiros and enhypnion. This article critically examines Artemidorus’ dualistic terminology. Uncovering the Oneirocritica’s internal inconsistencies, the article aims to show how Artemi…
Aphrodite
The few ancient authorities that mention the unusual appearance of the Aphrodite express their sense of wonder, but do so without any attempt to decipher its enigmatic meaning. Tacitus emphasizes the obscure meaning of this formless object: sed ratio in obscure . In art history, two common modes of representations of Aphrodite in art history include: the dressed and the naked Aphrodite. Consider, for example, the late fourth-century BC Cypriote s…
Thauma Idesthai
Artemidorus at the Dream Gates
Ancient conceptualization of dreams is based on a duality that splits the oneiric field into two hierarchically ordered modalities. The opposition between these dream categories finds its clearest expression in Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica, in the distinction between oneiros and enhypnion. This article critically examines Artemidorus’ dualistic terminology. Uncovering the Oneirocritica’s internal inconsistencies, the article aims to show how Artemi…
Spectacles of a Dormant Soul
A comparison between Book 3,21-25 of the Metamorphoses and Plato's Republic 2,359c-360b is pivotal for understanding how Apuleius stages entry into the space of the fantastic. In both episodes, desire, sight and the forbidden collaborate in creating the passage to the world of fiction, shaping it as a dreamlike experience, a psychological event of the unconscious. But the similarity between Plato's and Apuleius' fiction can be illuminated especia…
Sexuality as Intertextuality
What does it mean to have a feminine voice in a literary world dominated by male authors? What would it mean for the contemporary reader of ancient and medieval texts to be responsive to the distinctiveness of the feminine voice? This article addresses these questions by focusing on an eleventh-century epistolary exchange between the poet and clergyman Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance, a young nun at Le Ronceray Abbey in Angers. This amatory cor…
The Ancient Unconscious
Commonly understood as a modern conceptual invention rather than the discovery of a psychic reality, the notion of the unconscious is often criticized by traditional classicists as an anachronistic lens, one that ineluctably subjects ancient experience to modern patterns of thought. The book challenges this ambivalent theoretical disposition toward the psychoanalytic concept by offering an interpretation of the unconscious, explaining why this co…
Response to A.D. Mills Review of The Ancient Unconscious
Response to A.D. Mills Review of The Ancient Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and the Ancient Text Vered Lev Kenaan (bio) Oedipal Time Psychoanalysis has been linked to classical antiquity from its birth. The study of Hellenic and Roman antiquities was a formative inspiration for the development of the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. But how should we today understand the relationship between the study of the Greco-Roman world and the modern …
Digging with Freud
Feminist and postcolonial studies have often criticized Freudian psychoanalysis for staging the analysis of the hysterical, female patient through the metaphor of conquering terra incognita . Freud, in these perspectives, undermines the credibility of her speech by characterizing it as "enigmatic, ungrammatical, disjointed, fragmented and polylingual." Freud also has been often criticized for employing scientific positivism, whose underlying assu…
Silent Witnesses
Silent Witnesses:The Testimony of Objects in Holocaust Poetry and Prose Leora Bilsky (bio) and Vered Lev Kenaan1 (bio) The Holocaust brought about a crisis of testimony that led to critical engagement with the limits of representation by lawyers, historians, psychoanalysts, and poets. This question was first addressed by the architects of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (1945) who preferred incriminating documents produced by the…
Art (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Law (3 works)