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Agnon’s Story is the first complete psychoanalytic biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon. It investigates the hidden links between his stories and his biography. Agnon was deeply ambivalent about the most important emotional “objects” of his life, in particular his “father-teacher,” his ailing, depressive and symbiotic mother, his emotionally-fragile wife, whom he named after her and his adopted “home-land” of Israel. Yet he maintained an incredible emotional resiliency and ability to “sublimate” his emotional pain into works of art. This biography seeks to investigate the emotional character of his literary canon, his ambivalence to his family and the underlying narcissistic grandiosity of his famous “modesty.”

Authors, Hebrew --- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, --- Czaczkes, Samuel Joseph, --- Agnon, S. Y., --- Agnon, Shemuʼel Yosef, --- Shamūʼīl Yūsuf ʻAghnūn, --- ʻAghnūn, Shamūʼīl Yūsuf, --- Agnon, Shay, --- Agnon, Samuel Joseph, --- Ṭshaṭshḳis, Shemuʼel Yosef, --- ʻAgnon, Shai, --- Agnon, S. J., --- ʻAjnūn, Shamūʼīl Yūsuf, --- Agnón, Schmuel Iosef, --- Agnon, Shmuėl Iosef, --- Agnon, Šmuel Josef, --- Агнон, Шмуэл-Йосеф, --- עגנון, שמואל יוסף, --- עגנון, ש"י, --- Psychology. --- Ahnon, Shmuelʹ Ĭosef Halevi, --- Агнон, Шмуель Йосеф Галеві,

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This is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the added viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars. The reader will learn that the deepest and most poweful motives for the Crusades were not only religious or territorial - or the quest for lands, wealth or titles - but also unconscious emotions and fantasies about one's country, one's religion, one's enemies, God and the Devil, and Us and Them. The book also focuses on the collective inability to mourn large-group losses and the collective needs of large groups such as nations and religions to develop a clear identity, to have boundaries, and to have enemies and allies. Motives which the Crusaders and the Muslims were not aware of were among the most powerful in driving several centuries of terrible and seemingly endless warfare. --Book Jacket.

Psychoanalysis.