The 'Midrash' and Biographic Rehabilitation

Bibliographic Data

ID2514308
AuthorsMordechai Rotenberg (corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume25
Issue1
Pages41
Publication date1986-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1386062
OpenAlexW2333554488
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited2

Studies have demonstrated that many Western schizophrenics suffer from a ruptured linear time conception reflected in their inability to relate their present to past and future. It is hypothesized that the futurist clean leaf rehabilitation model, according to which past failures are to be conceived as a closed book, is rooted in an unshakeable Oedipal original-sin conception, which perpetuates cognitive dissonance between past, present and future. Based on case studies taken from the Jewish Midrash, a rehabilitation perspective is presented according to which repenters may reinterpret and contract their failing past by identifying with Biblical role-models who sinned but were subsequently acquitted by the Midrash. The differentiation between the cognitive dissonance based hermetic conception of the past and the cognitive consonance oriented hermeneutic approach to the past, is intended to comprise the components for an intrapersonal model of dialogue in time in which the contracted I (past failure) may enter into dialogue with the expanding thou (future goals)

Art · Judaism · Midrash · Physical therapy · Sociology · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Jewish Identity and Society · Medicine · Philosophy · Rehabilitation · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

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