Lexington Books
Pages: 238
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66691-726-0 • Hardback • May 2023 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-66691-727-7 • eBook • May 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Dorit Lemberger is senior lecturer of hermeneutics and cultural studies at Bar-Ilan University.
Chapter One: "Love is a curious mixture of opposites": The Symbolic Function of Language in Psychoanalysis and its Use in The Same Sea and A Tale of Love and Darkness
Chapter Two: Pierce’s Categories of Consciousness in Where the Jackals Howl and My Michael – A Pragmatic and Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Chapter Three: Between Guilt and Betrayal and the Possibility of Self-Control: Oz's Unto Death, Panther in the Basement and Judas from an Interdisciplinary Point of View
Chapter Four: The Journey to the True Self in Elsewhere, Perhaps and A Perfect Peace: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective
Chapter Five: Living Meaningfully – Self-Creativity in Black Box
Pragmatic-Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Amos Oz's Writings: Words Significantly Uttered sheds new light on the literary oeuvre of Amos Oz, one of the greatest authors of the second half of the twentieth century. Dorit Lemberger’s achievement in completing the complex task she took upon herself is impressive, and she succeeded by creating an original, effective research approach based on an extensive network of connections between several fields of knowledge: literature, language and linguistics, psychology, and pragmatist philosophy.
— Yigal Schwartz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dorit Lemberger offers us a thought-provoking philosophical grammar of literature. It’s with new eyes that she reads Amos Oz’s work, and it’s with enriched language that we finish reading her masterful study, eyes and language that linger on while we turn to the works of others.
— Shimon Adaf, Ben Gurion University of the Negev