Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel

Dr. Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel is Kreitman Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University; interdisciplinary fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, graduate of the postdoctoral program of the NYU Tikvah Center, and Doctoral Excellent Program in Jewish Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among her works is a book of a poetry; The World Has No Silence (Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 2011) for which she won the Rachel Negev Literature Award.

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Therapist from the Depths: A Conversation with Michael Eigen

By Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel | May 21, 2013

Michael Eigen isn’t only one of the leading and most important psychoanalysts in the world, but also a poet of strong-expression who plays the piano, wanders in the forest, and seeks holiness through Chasidic studies and Kabbalah. I had a conversation with Eigen, the Jewish kid who became one of Wilfred Bion’s greatest students (“thanks to him I decided to get married”), on the occasion of the publishing of his book Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis. At that time he told me:
When I was a little boy I remember seeing a tree. Half of it was withered and dead and the other half was blooming. Then I realized that one could be dead and very much alive, concurrently. We are not monolithic, and can experience vitality and life on certain levels and on others total deadness.