%0 Journal Article
%T Jacob Wrestles the Angel: A Study in Psychoanalytic Midrash
%A Michael Abramsky
%J International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
%D 2010
%I 
%X This essay is a study in psychoanalytic Midrash: a literary and psychological meditation on the Biblical story of Jacob. The Hebrew verbal root from which the term Midrash derives means to investigate or explore. It is a genre of Biblical scholarship used to interpret the Bible in symbolic and inspirational terms. This essay examines Jacob as he moves from a character dominated by self-defeating neurosis through his transformation into a spiritual being and exemplar of principled leadership. Insights from Freudian and Jungian psychologies, mythology, and literary traditions are used to describe and explain Jacob¡¯s character metamorphosis.
%K psychoanalysis
%K midrash
%K transpersonal
%K Jacob
%K spirituality
%K religion
%K Jung
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