Zoom Lecture - Siblings: Discovering the Importance of Brother and Sister

SIBLINGS
Discovering the importance of brother and sister for identity, wellbeing and in the process of individuation: Learning from the Bible.
by Henry Abramovitch
Our relations with our brothers and sisters and continue to fascinate and disappoint us. In a profound sense, we all know from the archetype what a sister or brother is supposed to be. Even a child who never had a sib, knows what a real sister is supposed to be, what a true brother is like – a warm, caring, lifelong connection. This myth of sisters and brothers is true and profound. But the reality of sibling life is very different. The dynamics of envy, conflict, alienation and worse can complicate and corrupt that ideal bond. In the presentation, I used the sibling stories in the Bible to develop a way of thinking about how and why siblings connect and clash. I tried to develop a new way of conceptualizing sister-brother dynamics and a new vocabulary for thinking about sibling. I also try to show why siblings are crucial for the process of individuation itself.
HENRY ABRAMOVITCH Ph.D. is Founding President and senior training analyst at the Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology in Honor of Erich Neumann, Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University Medical School and Past President of Israel Anthropological Association. He is active in Israel Interfaith Encounter Association. He teaches and supervises Routers in the IAAP Developing Groups across Eastern Europe and Kazakhstan. He is author of Brothers and Sisters: Myth and Reality (2014; 2nd expanded edition 2024); Why Odysseus Came Home as a Stranger and Other Puzzling Moments in the Life of…Great Individuals (2020), and with Murray Stein, the plays, The Analyst and the Rabbi (2019), My Lunch with Thomas (2023), Speaking of Friends (2023) and Eranos (2023), available on Youtube. His first novel, Panic Attacks in Pistachio: A Psychological Detective Story was published by Chiron Publication this year. Since the beginning of the Ukraine war, he has led a Reflection Group for Ukrainian Analysts on Zoom. He lives and practices in the Holy City of Jerusalem. Email: henry.abramovitch@gmail.com
Venue: TO BE HELD ONLINE ON ZOOM
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