Attached Paper Annual Meeting 2024

Melanie Klein and a Jewish Hermeneutics of the Body

Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)

This paper will make two, interconnected, claims: (1) that Modern Jewish thought (hereafter: MJT) must avoid choosing between an engagement with hermeneutics or a commitment to material realism, but must instead commit to both; and, (2) that MJT will be better able to do this if it more firmly brings Melanie Klein, and her work, into the “canon”.