Maya Balakirsky Katz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Balakirsky Katz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya Balakirsky |
| FAMILY NAME | Katz |
| SIGNATURE | KATZ M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Touro College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0961-0297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Attachment Theory and Mentalization in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood
Attachment theory is historically bound up with the cinematic apparatus and the time-sampling method of data recording. Interestingly, it has inspired few non-documentary films and still fewer auteur films. This paper explores the overt scenic representation of development theory in general and John Bowlby’s conceptual paradigm of “internal working models” in particular in the classroom scenes in Richard Linklater’s auteur film Boyhood (2014) as …
Freud, Jung, and Jonah
Religion, more than sexuality, cast psychoanalysis in controversy and onto the world stage even as it threatened to dismantle the psychoanalytic collective. In the founding years of the first psychoanalytic periodicals, relational dynamics shaped the psychoanalytic corpus on religion. The psychoanalytic pioneers developed their ideas in tandem even if in protest to one another. Religion is a topic worthy of engagement, not least because the symbo…
Freud, Jung, and Jonah
Protocols of the Elders of Zion , Antonio Gramsci, and the Myth of Niccolò Machiavelli
This paper reconsiders the criticism to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion during its initial publication and after its resurgence during the 1917 Russian Revolution. It argues that scholars have overemphasized repudiations of the text’s archaic antisemitism and plagiarism at the expense of critiques focusing on its modernist invective against “media control.” The paper recovers the issue of the Russian Empire’s control of the media, which liber…
Great is the Parable of Diana of the Ephesians
Freud's untitled four-paragraph text known as "Great is Diana of the Ephesians" has belied categorization and befuddled scholars to this day, reflecting broader issues in scholarly approaches to Freud's writings on the history of religion. Scholars generally agree that the essay represents Freud's first foray into the cult of the mother goddess but have failed to arrive at a consensus on what literary form his analysis takes, whether quotation, s…
Bambi Abroad, 1924–1954
This paper explores the visual sources that inspired Felix Salten's Bambi, Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde (1923), and its postpublication legacy in America, Poland, India, Israel, and Russia. While both Jewish and non-Jewish artists embraced the hunted deer motif as their own “national folktale,” the Jewish roots of the visual motif are critical to understanding the revisions and adaptations of the tale in the mid-twentieth century. The case…
Drawing the Iron Curtain
In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. Drawing the Iron Curtain tells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive. Art historian Maya Balakirsky Katz reveals how the s…
Dressing Up
This article considers Israel’s national image both at home and abroad through the framework of Israeli costume dolls, looking specifically at the way that gender played a role in Israel’s national image as it travelled from domestic production to international reception. Initially, predominantly female doll makers produced three main types of Israeli dolls, but over time the religious Eastern European male doll triumphed in the pantheon of natio…
Portraits from Vienna
A series of life portraits of the Hasidic rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880–1950) rendered by Jewish female artist Gertrud Zuckerkandl throws new light on the modern rabbinical portrait. Gertrud Zuckerkandl, the daughter-in-law of the art patroness Berta Zuckerkandl and the daughter of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel, rendered four life portraits of the sixth dynastic leader of the Belarusian Chabad dynasty in the fashionable Purkersdorf Sa…
A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Psychoanalyst
An Occupational Neurosis
In consultation with Sigmund Freud, the Viennese psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940) treated the first Jewish cleric known to undergo analysis, in 1903. According to the case history, published in 1908, a forty-two-year-old rabbi suffered from a Berufsneurose , an occupational neurosis associated with the pressures of his career. Stekel's case history forms an indelible portrait of a religious patient who submitted himself to the highly expe…
An Occupational Neurosis
In consultation with Sigmund Freud, the Viennese psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940) treated the first Jewish cleric known to undergo analysis, in 1903. According to the case history, published in 1908, a forty-two-year-old rabbi suffered from a Berufsneurose , an occupational neurosis associated with the pressures of his career. Stekel's case history forms an indelible portrait of a religious patient who submitted himself to the highly expe…
An Occupational Neurosis
In consultation with Sigmund Freud, the Viennese psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940) treated the first Jewish cleric known to undergo analysis, in 1903. According to the case history, published in 1908, a forty-two-year-old rabbi suffered from a Berufsneurose , an occupational neurosis associated with the pressures of his career. Stekel's case history forms an indelible portrait of a religious patient who submitted himself to the highly expe…
A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Psychoanalyst
Dressing Up
This article considers Israel’s national image both at home and abroad through the framework of Israeli costume dolls, looking specifically at the way that gender played a role in Israel’s national image as it travelled from domestic production to international reception. Initially, predominantly female doll makers produced three main types of Israeli dolls, but over time the religious Eastern European male doll triumphed in the pantheon of natio…
Portraits from Vienna
A series of life portraits of the Hasidic rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880–1950) rendered by Jewish female artist Gertrud Zuckerkandl throws new light on the modern rabbinical portrait. Gertrud Zuckerkandl, the daughter-in-law of the art patroness Berta Zuckerkandl and the daughter of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel, rendered four life portraits of the sixth dynastic leader of the Belarusian Chabad dynasty in the fashionable Purkersdorf Sa…
Drawing the Iron Curtain
In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. Drawing the Iron Curtain tells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive. Art historian Maya Balakirsky Katz reveals how the s…
Bambi Abroad, 1924–1954
This paper explores the visual sources that inspired Felix Salten's Bambi, Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde (1923), and its postpublication legacy in America, Poland, India, Israel, and Russia. While both Jewish and non-Jewish artists embraced the hunted deer motif as their own “national folktale,” the Jewish roots of the visual motif are critical to understanding the revisions and adaptations of the tale in the mid-twentieth century. The case…
Protocols of the Elders of Zion , Antonio Gramsci, and the Myth of Niccolò Machiavelli
This paper reconsiders the criticism to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion during its initial publication and after its resurgence during the 1917 Russian Revolution. It argues that scholars have overemphasized repudiations of the text’s archaic antisemitism and plagiarism at the expense of critiques focusing on its modernist invective against “media control.” The paper recovers the issue of the Russian Empire’s control of the media, which liber…
Great is the Parable of Diana of the Ephesians
Freud's untitled four-paragraph text known as "Great is Diana of the Ephesians" has belied categorization and befuddled scholars to this day, reflecting broader issues in scholarly approaches to Freud's writings on the history of religion. Scholars generally agree that the essay represents Freud's first foray into the cult of the mother goddess but have failed to arrive at a consensus on what literary form his analysis takes, whether quotation, s…
Freud, Jung, and Jonah
Religion, more than sexuality, cast psychoanalysis in controversy and onto the world stage even as it threatened to dismantle the psychoanalytic collective. In the founding years of the first psychoanalytic periodicals, relational dynamics shaped the psychoanalytic corpus on religion. The psychoanalytic pioneers developed their ideas in tandem even if in protest to one another. Religion is a topic worthy of engagement, not least because the symbo…
Freud, Jung, and Jonah
Attachment Theory and Mentalization in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood
Attachment theory is historically bound up with the cinematic apparatus and the time-sampling method of data recording. Interestingly, it has inspired few non-documentary films and still fewer auteur films. This paper explores the overt scenic representation of development theory in general and John Bowlby’s conceptual paradigm of “internal working models” in particular in the classroom scenes in Richard Linklater’s auteur film Boyhood (2014) as …
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