Selective Inattention and Bigotry: A Discussion of the Film Trembling Before G-d

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Mark J. Blechner is Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He is author of The Dream Frontier (2001, The Analytic Press) and is the editor-in-chief of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Notes

¹ Some Jewish scholars today consider Ganzfried's Code of Jewish Law to represent ultrastringent views without basis in halachic (Jewish law) tradition.

² Religion, Sexuality, and Prejudice. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, New York City, Nov. 9, 2003.

³ In the quotations from the Gospels that follow, I have removed the words “Pharisees.” Jesus addressed these comments to the Pharisees 2000 years ago, but today they would apply to religious clerics of many religions.