The articles collected in this volume pay a tribute to Haim Finkelstein, the founder of the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva. An internationally recognized scholar of Surrealist art and literature, the honoree is also an active painter and curator. Fellow art historians, curators, artists, and critics contribute to this multifaceted volume representing the different aspects of Finkelstein’s professional career. Creating a lively dialogue with the scope of his own work, this book is part of an intellectual exchange between artists and researchers, which has been the focal point of Finkelstein’s vision and practice for several decades.

The articles in this volume: Gaby Shefler - PROLOGUE: HEBRAIC PSYCHOANALYSIS-PSYCHOANALYSIS IN HEBREW Moshe Halevi Spero - THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANALYSIS AND ANALYTIC LANGUAGE: INTRODUCTION TO THE PREMIER ISSUE OF MAARAG: THE ISRAEL ANNUAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Cobi Avshalom - THE ANALYTIC COMPASS Hagit Aharoni - PLACENTAL ECONOMY: THOUGHTS ON THE MOVEMENT BETWEEN LINKAGE AND SEPARATENESS AND THEIR PARADOXICAL COEXISTENCE Shmuel Bernstein - THE SECRET OF YOUTH: THE SECRET AS A CHANGE AGENT DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS Oded Goldberg - KING DAVID, HIS SON ABSALOM, AND THE ROLE OF THE FATHER IN THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX Nimrod Golan - WHAT DOES GIACOMETTI SEE? BECOMING A SELFOBJECT IN THE ARTIST’S WORK Ditza Hananel - THE WINNICOTTIAN INTERSUBJECTIVE SUBJECT AS METAPHOR FOR THE DIALECTICS OF ANALYTIC THERAPY: ON THE EXPERIENTIAL ASPECT OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Gideon Lev - FROM SCULPTING TO PAINTING: THE GOALS OF TREATMENT IN AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE 1950s AND THE 1990s FROM A SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Itamar Levi - THE HOME AND THE ROAD Rina Lazar - "INFINITE CONVERSATION”: THE WORK OF THE UNCONSCIOUS THE VARIOUS FACES OF CONTEXUALITY Gabriela Mann - BETWEEN ONENESS AND DUALITY IN SELF PSYCHOLOGY AND IN RELATIONAL INTERSUBJECTIVITY Tami Pollak - THE CONFLUENCE BETWEEN CONCEPTUAL AND PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION AS VIEWED THROUGH BION’S GRID Raanan Kulka - THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF SELF PSYCHOLOGY Alina Schellekes - WHEN TIME STOOD STILL: THOUGHTS REGARDING THE DIMENSION OF TIME IN PRIMITIVE MENTAL STATES

How did Monet really paint his series? What influence did the writings of Kant, Goethe, and Rousseau, or the art criticism of Baudelaire and Zola, have on nineteenth-century artists? Did you know that Renoir also wrote art theory? How did women artists, such as Morisot and Cassatt, struggle against social barriers? How were the lives of the artists expressed in their works? This book answers these questions and much more about the art of the nineteenth century, the cradle of modern art, a century rich in innovations both in art theory, philosophy and in the ideas of writers with whom the artists held a fruitful dialogue. By means of these theories, the author analyzes the principles of the three main movements that developed simultaneously at the beginning of the century: the idealism that ruled the Neo-Classical school and is found in the paintings of David and Ingres; the subjectivism of Romanticism that is revealed in the landscapes of Friedrich and Turner, in the highly expressive works of Goya and Delacroix and in the sculpture of Rodin; and Naturalism's interest in present-day life that is displayed in the landscapes of Constable and Corot and in the figure paintings of Millet and Courbet. This last movement was developed by Manet, Degas, Monet, and Renoir into Impressionism in the second half of the century. The book concludes with an analysis of the many different styles that were current at the end of the century in the art of Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Redon, and Munch. The texts in the book illuminate the art works that were the gateway to modern art in a new light. These texts are translated into Hebrew – for the most part for the first time – while conserving the writing style of each author. Each chapter is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory footnotes. A book for artists, lovers of art, teachers, and students.

The basic assumption in the studies presented in this book is that you can reveal teachers thoughts about learning processes by watching them teach. Therefore, these studies are based on observing lessons and practice sessions.

The first comprehensive academic study of the architectural planning of the kibbutzim and the moshavim, the utopian agricultural settlements that were created in Eretz-Israel during the 20th century. The book discusses the connection between the ideology and the architecture of these settlements in the broad historical context of the orientations intent on creating utopian societies and planning ideal settlements to house them. It presents the ideas on the architectural planning of ideal settlements that appear in the writings of social visionaries such as the prophet Ezekiel, Plato, Fourier, Owen, Marx and Engels, and of architects such as Vitruvius, Ledoux and Le Corbusier, and examines the extent of their creative imagination and their influence on the ways of thinking of the fathers of Zionist settlement such as Tabenkin and Eliezer Yaffe and architects of the kibbutzim and the moshavim, such as Kauffmann, Sharon and Bickels. The book presents an analysis of the spatial layouts of settlement models as related to the various social ideological movements that existed in Eretz-Israel. It surveys the development of these settlement models in light of the extreme political, economic and technological changes that took place in the world and in Israel in the course of the century, and examines the influences of the changes in the ideology on the changes in the spatial layouts of the settlements. The authors, Bracha and Michael Chyutin, are leading Israeli architects who have won numerous architectural competitions. They have been responsible for the construction of a number of iconic public buildings, among them the Court of Law Building in Haifa, the Givatayim Theater, and university buildings such as the Senate Building at Beer Sheva University and the Students Center at Haifa University. They have been awarded prestigious prizes, among them the Rechter Prize (twice) and the Israel Design Award (twice), for buildings they have planned.

This book attempts to measure the effectiveness of research tools from different disciplines in analyzing and understanding works of theatre and literature. One of the most significant conclusions of this attempt is that art functions as a way to conceive reality through imagination. As a creative tool for expressing, shaping and reflecting the psycho-cultural spirits of artists, times and spaces, art produces mirrors in front of cultural variedness, different eras, human temperaments, truths, values and meanings. Part one introduces basic concepts of theories from various fields: the philosophy of esthetics, literary sociology, cultural anthropology and psychology written by Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Wolfflin, Croce, Storr, Shoham and others. The common base of these theories is a binary contemplation that highlights the existence of polar duality in the spirit of man. This duality has many forms and names: Apollo versus Dionysus (reason versus instinct), dialogism versus monologism, renaissance versus baroque, romanticism versus classicism, Sisyphus versus Tantalus, Schizoid versus manic-depressive. Part two focuses on interpretations of works of literature and theatre in the light of these theories. The works chosen belong to different writers, cultures and periods: Tonio Kruger of Thomas mann, Hamlet of Shakespeare, The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi and Angel Came Down to Earth by Durrenmatt, The Lover by A.B. Yehushua, The Adventure of Jaber's Head by Wannus, Bath Queen and The Patriot by Levin, The Rain Maker by Lahham and Jericho Governor by Mondi.

Why did the Israeli cinema disregard the Holocaust for many years? Why did it represent the Holocaust survivors as a homogeneous group of passive, detached and problematic people and ignored their enormous contribution to the prosperity of Israel? Was there any change in these representations from the late 40's until the present time? These questions are the center of the book Two Faces in the Mirror , that depicts the representation of the Holocaust, the Holocaust survivors and their rehabilitation in Israeli fiction and documentary cinema during 1945-2009. It is well known that films do not reflect reality, however they reflect cultural and social atmosphere – influence it and are influenced by it. The analysis of Israeli fiction and documentary cinema reveal two different paths of memory, two faces in the mirror: A society that ranges between shallowness and in-depth views, between strengthening superficial stereotypes and shattering them, between implanting distorted narratives and multi-cultural openness towards the "other".

This book deals with intellectual capacity and the diversity in cinema since the Lumiere brothers in the late nineteenth century and Murray Rosenberg at the beginning of the twentieth century, through international masterpieces (Hitchcock, Welles, Godard, etc.) and the best Israeli films ('Sallah Shabati', 'Metzitzim', 'Bikur Ha-Tizmoret', and 'Waltz with Bashir'). This book was awarded the BAHAT PRIZE, 2007. The BAHAT PRIZE is awarded annually in memory of Professor Yaacov Bahat

The plot of this play revolves around a literal pot of gold that the miserly protagonist, Euclio, guards zealously. The play's ending does not survive, though there are indications of how the plot is resolved in later summaries and a few fragments of dialogue.