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HASIDIC CONTRACTION: A MODEL FOR INTERHEMISPHERIC DIALOGUE
Author(s) -
Rotenberg Mordechai
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1986.tb00743.x
Subject(s) - dialectic , dialogical self , mysticism , psychology , synchronicity , contraction (grammar) , a priori and a posteriori , mirror neuron , cognitive psychology , psychoanalysis , epistemology , cognitive science , philosophy , social psychology , linguistics , theology
. Neuroclinical studies have claimed that the right side of the brain is associated with mystic orientation and sensual‐affective functioning and that the brain's left side is related to logical‐analytic thinking. From observations of conversion processes among repenters and cult recruitees, it is hypothesized that a drastic switchover between mythic and analytic life orientations, via a dialectic replacement of the previous code, may result in a psychopathological disorientation. Based on the Hasidic‐Cabalic notion of mutual “contraction,” a dialogical model of interhemi‐spheric balancing, which a priori trains people to interpret reality through simultaneous rational Talmudism and Cabalic mysticism, is introduced.