Cabalic Sexuality and Creativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12389185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mordechai Rotenberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 225-244 |
| Publication date | 1995-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1050-8619 • E-ISSN: 1532-7582 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15327582ijpr0504_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2002157439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
The guiding assumption of this article begins from the observation that Western campaigns for expressing sexuality (e.g., homosexuality) and repressing sexuality (e.g., harassment) are largely identical in their assertive-aggressive behavior patterns. A thesis is presented according to which the erotic creation myth (cosmogony) of emanation may have exerted paradigmatic impacts on the Westem phallic-erective style of sexuality, creativity, and assertive-aggressive (aggressertive) communication patterns. The cabalic erotic cosmogony of con- traction (tzimtzum) is then introduced as an alternative paradigm for sexuality, creativity, and communication that comprises the following components: (a) Creation, procreation, and creativity begin from an act of self-contraction to evacuate space for a union with another creative partner. (b) The sequential notion of yetzer (sexual desire) leading to yetzira (spiritual creativity) is possible via a transformational process that includes the ecstatic experience of a spiritual orgasm (devekut). The Midrashic-cabalic exercise of recombining letters for reaching ecstatic devekut is portrayed as an archetypical conditioning mantra for therapeutic rebiographing. Illustrative clinical applications for promoting sexual equality and for treating impotency are briefly discussed
Aesthetics · Art · Assertiveness · Cosmogony · Creativity · Heterosexism · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Gender Studies · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |