José Brunner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José Brunner |
| GIVEN NAMES | José |
| FAMILY NAME | Brunner |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Emotionalising the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: On the civil society engagements of Israeli mental health professionals in response to the Palestinian uprisings
This article explores how Israeli mental health practitioners emotionalised the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by intervening in the public sphere. Based on a close reading of texts produced by two Israeli civil society associations of psy-professionals – Imut and Natal – we analyse and compare two languages of emotion that they developed in response to two Palestinian uprisings, the First Intifada of 1987–93 and the Al Aqsa Intifada of 2000–05. Th…
From the therapeutic to the post-therapeutic: The resilient subject, its social imaginary, and its practices in the shadow of 9/11
In the aftermath of 9/11, the concept of psychological resilience, which refers to the ability to “bounce back” after adversity, became prominent across the American mental health community. Resilience thinking made its way quickly into the U.S. military, where it sparked the most expensive psychological intervention program in history. This article interweaves four strands of explanation—political, scientific, technological, and cultural—to acco…
Politics of Representation
Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
"Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis is a sympathetic critique of Freud's work, tracing its political content and context from his early writings on hysteria to his late essays on civilization and religion. Brunner's central claim is that politics is a pervasive and essential component of all of Freud's discourse, since Freud viewed both the psyche and society primarily as constellations of power and domination. Brunner shows that when read …
Making up 'national trauma' in Israel: From collective identity to collective vulnerability
We sketch a variety of institutional, discursive, professional, and personal 'vectors', dating back to the 1980s, in order to explain how 'national trauma' was able to go from a cultural into a professional category in Israeli mental health during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000-2005). Our genealogy follows Ian Hacking's approach to transient mental illnesses, both illustrating its fertility and expanding its horizon. Thus, we also explore the dynamic…
‘In good times and in bad’: Boundary relations of psychoanalysis in post-war USA
This paper suggests writing the history of psychoanalysis by focusing on the manifold ways in which its practitioners may relate to the boundaries dividing it from its neighbouring professions. This approach is illustrated by two loosely interrelated examples: the 1950s debate among leading US psychoanalysts on whether borderline patients can be analysed, and the 1990s responses of psychoanalysts to psychopharmacological treatments of schizophren…
Ironías de la Historia española: Observaciones sobre la política pos-franquista de olvido y memoria
La política de la memoria en España posterior a la dictadura está marcada por una serie de desplazamientos, desvíos e ironías. Las elites políticas del posfranquismo usaron el legado de la dictadura para consolidar una política del silencio al servicio de la estabilidad post-dictatorial; en consecuencia, el nuevo régimen democrático se sustentó en un hábito político establecido bajo el autoritarismo. El foco del «pacto del olvido» en la Guerra Ci…
Freud's (de)Construction of the Conflictual Mind
Freud uses paradoxical and conflictual rhetoric to create an unstable and conflictual picture of the mind. Thus he diverges from both dominant traditions of thought in the West: the Judeo-Christian way of filling all gaps in meaning by putting a single omnipotent divinity in charge of them, and the Enlightenment quest for a final, causal language to describe reality. By both suggesting and displacing a plurality of perspectives on the unconscious…
Oh Those Crazy Cards Again: A History of the Debate on the Nazi Rorschachs, 1946–2001
This essay provides a critical history of the debate on the Rorschach Inkblot Tests administered to 22 leading figures of the Third Reich who were imprisoned in Nuremberg in 1945–1946. This debate occurred in two stages. The question at the heart of the first stage was whether the Nazi leaders were sane or psychopaths. Despite a strong disagreement concerning the use of these diagnostic labels, there was a surprisingly broad agreement on the actu…
Wordly Powers: A Political Reading of the Rat Man
Introduction This essay presents a political reading of one of Freud's case histories, the "Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis," better known as the case of the Rat Man (Freud 1909, 155-249; references to the Rat Man case will be indicated hereafter by page number only). The reading of the Rat Man suggested here is political in that it focuses on the dynamics of domination and the positions of authority in which Freud and his patient place…
Pride and Memory: Nationalism, Narcissism and the Historians' Debates in Germany and Israel
José Brunner, Pride and Memory: Nationalism, Narcissism and the Historians' Debates in Germany and Israel, History and Memory, Vol. 9, No. 1/2, Passing into History: Nazism and the Holocaust beyond Memory — In Honor of Saul Friedlander on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Fall 1997), pp. 256-300
Fear and Envy: Sexual Difference and the Economies of Feminist Critique in Psychoanalytic Discourse
The Argument This essay examines Freud's construction of a mythical moment during early childhood, in which differences between male and female sexual identities are said to originate. It focuses on the way in which Freud divides fear and envy between the sexes, allocating the emotion of (castration) fear to men, and that of (penis) envy to women. On the one hand, the problems of this construction are pointed out, but on the other hand, it is sho…
Rawls on Respect and Self-respect: An Israeli Perspective
This essay provides a detailed and critical analysis of Rawls' notions of respect and self-respect from the vantage point of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It demonstrates that Rawls' empirical and normative claims concerning respect and self-respect are pivotal to his theorizing on psychology and politics. It considers the extent to which processes and developments in Israeli-Palestinian relations can be said to be compatible with – or even c…
Looking into the Hearts of the Workers, or: How Erich Fromm Turned Critical Theory into Empirical Research
"Every Path Will End in Darkness" or: Why Psychoanalysis Needs Metapsychology
The ArgumentThis article focuses on the dialectic of metapsychology and hermeneutics in psychoanalysis. By combining the causal language of the former with the inten tional terminology of the latter, Freud's discourse continuously transgresses the narrowly conceived boundaries of scientific disciplines and places its stakes in both the humanities and the natural sciences. The argument is made that attempts to reduce psychoanalytic theory to eithe…
Psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and politics during the First World War
This article compares the therapeutic power used by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts serving in the German and Austro-Hungarian armies during World War I, and the ways in which their therapeutic techniques were related to governmental and military authority. When treating "shell shocked" soldiers, army psychiatrists were guided by nationalist commitment rather than concern for their patients. Whatever theoretical approach they took, they defined …
Looking into the Hearts of the Workers, or: How Erich Fromm Turned Critical Theory into Empirical Research
Making up 'national trauma' in Israel: From collective identity to collective vulnerability
We sketch a variety of institutional, discursive, professional, and personal 'vectors', dating back to the 1980s, in order to explain how 'national trauma' was able to go from a cultural into a professional category in Israeli mental health during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000-2005). Our genealogy follows Ian Hacking's approach to transient mental illnesses, both illustrating its fertility and expanding its horizon. Thus, we also explore the dynamic…
Rawls on Respect and Self-respect: An Israeli Perspective
This essay provides a detailed and critical analysis of Rawls' notions of respect and self-respect from the vantage point of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It demonstrates that Rawls' empirical and normative claims concerning respect and self-respect are pivotal to his theorizing on psychology and politics. It considers the extent to which processes and developments in Israeli-Palestinian relations can be said to be compatible with – or even c…
Freud's (de)Construction of the Conflictual Mind
Freud uses paradoxical and conflictual rhetoric to create an unstable and conflictual picture of the mind. Thus he diverges from both dominant traditions of thought in the West: the Judeo-Christian way of filling all gaps in meaning by putting a single omnipotent divinity in charge of them, and the Enlightenment quest for a final, causal language to describe reality. By both suggesting and displacing a plurality of perspectives on the unconscious…
Oh Those Crazy Cards Again: A History of the Debate on the Nazi Rorschachs, 1946–2001
This essay provides a critical history of the debate on the Rorschach Inkblot Tests administered to 22 leading figures of the Third Reich who were imprisoned in Nuremberg in 1945–1946. This debate occurred in two stages. The question at the heart of the first stage was whether the Nazi leaders were sane or psychopaths. Despite a strong disagreement concerning the use of these diagnostic labels, there was a surprisingly broad agreement on the actu…
"Every Path Will End in Darkness" or: Why Psychoanalysis Needs Metapsychology
The ArgumentThis article focuses on the dialectic of metapsychology and hermeneutics in psychoanalysis. By combining the causal language of the former with the inten tional terminology of the latter, Freud's discourse continuously transgresses the narrowly conceived boundaries of scientific disciplines and places its stakes in both the humanities and the natural sciences. The argument is made that attempts to reduce psychoanalytic theory to eithe…
Emotionalising the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: On the civil society engagements of Israeli mental health professionals in response to the Palestinian uprisings
This article explores how Israeli mental health practitioners emotionalised the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by intervening in the public sphere. Based on a close reading of texts produced by two Israeli civil society associations of psy-professionals – Imut and Natal – we analyse and compare two languages of emotion that they developed in response to two Palestinian uprisings, the First Intifada of 1987–93 and the Al Aqsa Intifada of 2000–05. Th…
Wordly Powers: A Political Reading of the Rat Man
Introduction This essay presents a political reading of one of Freud's case histories, the "Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis," better known as the case of the Rat Man (Freud 1909, 155-249; references to the Rat Man case will be indicated hereafter by page number only). The reading of the Rat Man suggested here is political in that it focuses on the dynamics of domination and the positions of authority in which Freud and his patient place…
Psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and politics during the First World War
This article compares the therapeutic power used by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts serving in the German and Austro-Hungarian armies during World War I, and the ways in which their therapeutic techniques were related to governmental and military authority. When treating "shell shocked" soldiers, army psychiatrists were guided by nationalist commitment rather than concern for their patients. Whatever theoretical approach they took, they defined …
Looking into the Hearts of the Workers, or: How Erich Fromm Turned Critical Theory into Empirical Research
"Every Path Will End in Darkness" or: Why Psychoanalysis Needs Metapsychology
The ArgumentThis article focuses on the dialectic of metapsychology and hermeneutics in psychoanalysis. By combining the causal language of the former with the inten tional terminology of the latter, Freud's discourse continuously transgresses the narrowly conceived boundaries of scientific disciplines and places its stakes in both the humanities and the natural sciences. The argument is made that attempts to reduce psychoanalytic theory to eithe…
Rawls on Respect and Self-respect: An Israeli Perspective
This essay provides a detailed and critical analysis of Rawls' notions of respect and self-respect from the vantage point of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It demonstrates that Rawls' empirical and normative claims concerning respect and self-respect are pivotal to his theorizing on psychology and politics. It considers the extent to which processes and developments in Israeli-Palestinian relations can be said to be compatible with – or even c…
Pride and Memory: Nationalism, Narcissism and the Historians' Debates in Germany and Israel
José Brunner, Pride and Memory: Nationalism, Narcissism and the Historians' Debates in Germany and Israel, History and Memory, Vol. 9, No. 1/2, Passing into History: Nazism and the Holocaust beyond Memory — In Honor of Saul Friedlander on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Fall 1997), pp. 256-300
Fear and Envy: Sexual Difference and the Economies of Feminist Critique in Psychoanalytic Discourse
The Argument This essay examines Freud's construction of a mythical moment during early childhood, in which differences between male and female sexual identities are said to originate. It focuses on the way in which Freud divides fear and envy between the sexes, allocating the emotion of (castration) fear to men, and that of (penis) envy to women. On the one hand, the problems of this construction are pointed out, but on the other hand, it is sho…
Oh Those Crazy Cards Again: A History of the Debate on the Nazi Rorschachs, 1946–2001
This essay provides a critical history of the debate on the Rorschach Inkblot Tests administered to 22 leading figures of the Third Reich who were imprisoned in Nuremberg in 1945–1946. This debate occurred in two stages. The question at the heart of the first stage was whether the Nazi leaders were sane or psychopaths. Despite a strong disagreement concerning the use of these diagnostic labels, there was a surprisingly broad agreement on the actu…
Wordly Powers: A Political Reading of the Rat Man
Introduction This essay presents a political reading of one of Freud's case histories, the "Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis," better known as the case of the Rat Man (Freud 1909, 155-249; references to the Rat Man case will be indicated hereafter by page number only). The reading of the Rat Man suggested here is political in that it focuses on the dynamics of domination and the positions of authority in which Freud and his patient place…
Freud's (de)Construction of the Conflictual Mind
Freud uses paradoxical and conflictual rhetoric to create an unstable and conflictual picture of the mind. Thus he diverges from both dominant traditions of thought in the West: the Judeo-Christian way of filling all gaps in meaning by putting a single omnipotent divinity in charge of them, and the Enlightenment quest for a final, causal language to describe reality. By both suggesting and displacing a plurality of perspectives on the unconscious…
Ironías de la Historia española: Observaciones sobre la política pos-franquista de olvido y memoria
La política de la memoria en España posterior a la dictadura está marcada por una serie de desplazamientos, desvíos e ironías. Las elites políticas del posfranquismo usaron el legado de la dictadura para consolidar una política del silencio al servicio de la estabilidad post-dictatorial; en consecuencia, el nuevo régimen democrático se sustentó en un hábito político establecido bajo el autoritarismo. El foco del «pacto del olvido» en la Guerra Ci…
‘In good times and in bad’: Boundary relations of psychoanalysis in post-war USA
This paper suggests writing the history of psychoanalysis by focusing on the manifold ways in which its practitioners may relate to the boundaries dividing it from its neighbouring professions. This approach is illustrated by two loosely interrelated examples: the 1950s debate among leading US psychoanalysts on whether borderline patients can be analysed, and the 1990s responses of psychoanalysts to psychopharmacological treatments of schizophren…
Making up 'national trauma' in Israel: From collective identity to collective vulnerability
We sketch a variety of institutional, discursive, professional, and personal 'vectors', dating back to the 1980s, in order to explain how 'national trauma' was able to go from a cultural into a professional category in Israeli mental health during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000-2005). Our genealogy follows Ian Hacking's approach to transient mental illnesses, both illustrating its fertility and expanding its horizon. Thus, we also explore the dynamic…
Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
"Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis is a sympathetic critique of Freud's work, tracing its political content and context from his early writings on hysteria to his late essays on civilization and religion. Brunner's central claim is that politics is a pervasive and essential component of all of Freud's discourse, since Freud viewed both the psyche and society primarily as constellations of power and domination. Brunner shows that when read …
Politics of Representation
From the therapeutic to the post-therapeutic: The resilient subject, its social imaginary, and its practices in the shadow of 9/11
In the aftermath of 9/11, the concept of psychological resilience, which refers to the ability to “bounce back” after adversity, became prominent across the American mental health community. Resilience thinking made its way quickly into the U.S. military, where it sparked the most expensive psychological intervention program in history. This article interweaves four strands of explanation—political, scientific, technological, and cultural—to acco…
Emotionalising the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: On the civil society engagements of Israeli mental health professionals in response to the Palestinian uprisings
This article explores how Israeli mental health practitioners emotionalised the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by intervening in the public sphere. Based on a close reading of texts produced by two Israeli civil society associations of psy-professionals – Imut and Natal – we analyse and compare two languages of emotion that they developed in response to two Palestinian uprisings, the First Intifada of 1987–93 and the Al Aqsa Intifada of 2000–05. Th…
Psychology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychoanalysis (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)