Rewriting the Self

While the term midrash--from the Hebrew darash, searched or interpreted--can refer to both legal and extralegal scriptural exegesis, it most commonly refers to symbolic legends, stories, and parables used to make moral or ethical concepts accessible to the layman

Mordechai Rotenberg

1: Introduction: Living through Midrashic Interpretation; 2: Narrative "Missionarism" in Dialectic Psychotherapy; 3: The Midrash and "Biographic Rehabilitation"; 4: Philosophies of History and the Psychology of "Self-Renewal"; 5: The Oedipal Conflict and the Isaac Solution; 6: The "Non-Melting Pot"; 7: The Hermeneutic Dialogue and Interhemispheric Balance; 8: Linear Conversion versus Cyclistic Teshuvah: An Empirical Differentiation; 9: The Midrashic Dialogue between Past and Future; 10: The Temporal Dialogue as "Chutzpah Therapy"