The Trance of Terror
Psyco-Religious FundaMentalism; Roots and Remedies; A first study that scrutinizes the psycological mechanisms that social systems use to create the "robotic"
person; translation of "mi-mikdash le-Midrash", dealing with religious and Judaic terms
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CONTENTS
Forward………………………………………………………………….. …………1
Introduction……………………………………………………………. …………..5
Section One: Roots of Funda-mentalist Psychology
Chapter One: Mechanisms of Funda-mentalist Psychology…….………………16
The Myth of the Authoritative Personality………………………….…………..21
Chapter Two: Psycho-missionarism and Funda-mentalism……………………..24
Manipulative Pyscho-Missionary Activity………………………….……………25
Psychoanalysis as Manipulative Psycho-Missionary Activity…………………..29
Violent Psycho-Missionary Activity…………………………………………….35
Chapter Three: Mantric Repetitiveness in Prayer and Music……………………41
Music as Trance or Ecstatic Experience…………………………………………45
“Ecstasy” and “Trance”…………………………………………………………49
Ecstasy, Trance, and Poetic Prophecy…………………………………………..51
Messianism as a Psychology of Forecasting or of Vision………………………56
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Fantasy and Motivation……………………………………………………..59
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Delusion and Hope……………………………………………….…………61
Chapter Four: Hypnosis and “Trance”……………………………………………66
Automatism or Auto-nomism……………………………………….…………..72
Trance-Dance in Israel…………………………………………………………..76
Chapter Five: “Political Correctness” as Funda-Mentalism……………………..82
The “Peace” Mantra as the Embodiment of Political Correctness….…………..88
Da’at Torah as a Mantra of Political Correctness………………………………91
Section 2: Uncertainty as the Only Form of Certainty
Chapter Six: Towards Achieving Balance between Miqdash and Midrash…….. 99
Advertisements and Democratic Openness…………………………….………107
Imperialistic “Missionarism” and Contractive Conversion……………………109
Chapter Seven: Skepticism (Safqanut) vs. Certitude (Pasqanut)…………………114
Decisive “Explanations” as compared to Skeptic “Understanding”……………117
Wavering between Oy-ing and I-ing……………………………………………119
Al Tiqre Exegesis as Gam v’Gam – Gimgum Stuttering……………….……….123
The “Double Bind” Theory as compared to the “Coercive Choice” Principle …130
Comparative Schema of Types of Behavior and Action………………………..135
Chapter Eight: Between Mitnagdic Intellectualism and Hasidic Emotionalism…137
Kabbalistic Mantrism and Hasidic Mantrism…………………………………..139
Section Three: Seventy Faces of Prayer
Chapter Nine: Jewish Prayer as Coercive Ritual or Midrashic Melody…………151
Prayer as a Sacrifice or a Gift Offering…………………………………………155
Custom – between Miqdashic Prayer and Midrashic Prayer……………………158
Prayer as Theurgic Ritual or Personal Cry………………………………………163
Mantrism vs. Melody in Hasidism………………………………………………165
Automatic Speech and Writing………………………………………………….167
Miqdashic and Midrashic Social Life……………………………………………169
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Leibovitchism vs. Carlebachism………………………………………………169
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Secularists vs. Ultra-Orthodox………………………………………………..170
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Political Correctness and Sciencism…………………………………………..173
Chapter Ten: Amulets and Hypnotic Mantrism…………………………………..176
Amulets and the Psychology of Names …………………………………………178
The Mezuzah as a Amuletic Piece of Jewelry…………………………………..180
Amulets as Hypnotizing Crystal balls…………………………………………..182
Fetishistic Amuletism……………………………………………………………185
Chapter Eleven: Midrashic Prayer as “Afterprayer”…………………………….188
Piyyut as Bridging “After-prayer”……………………………………………..191
Modern-day Poetry as “After prayer”…………………………………………196
Chutzpa – Creative Audacity in Prayer…………………………………………203
Chapter Twelve: “Noah’s Ark” as a Gap-Bridging Formula (nussah)………….206
Noah’s Ark – the Tool for Transforming Letters into Melody of Life Notes…207
Transforming Neshima (Breath) into Neshama (Soul)…………………………217
Transforming Disease (Mahala) into Compassion Hemla……………………….218
To Be Parutz (broken open), or Zaruf (welded) and Ratzuf (consistent)………219
Transforming Echpatiut (caring) into E-kefiut (non-coerciveness)……………222
Tal’s Marathon Takeoff………………………………………………………..224
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