Éliane Amado Levy-Valensi (; May 11, 1919 – May 10, 2006) was a French- Israeli

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...

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and

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Biography

Éliane Levy-Valensi was born in

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to a Jewish family. In 1930 she moved with her parents to

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(Val-de-Marne) near

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. She studied

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. She entered the

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(CNRS), preparing her doctoral thesis. She taught philosophy at the Sorbonne In 1968 she emigrated to Israel, and became a professor of philosophy at

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Family

She married Max Amado in 1942 and divorced from him in 1953. In 1960 she married Claude Veil, a psychiatrist and professor, and divorced from him in 1969.

Books

* ''Le Dialogue psychanalytique : Les rapports intersubjectifs en psychanalyse, la vocation du sujet'', 1962 * ''Les Niveaux de l'être : La connaissance et le mal'', 1963 * ''Le Temps dans la vie psychologique'', 1964 * ''La Communication'', 1967 * ''Le Temps dans la vie morale'', 1968 * ''Isaac gardien de son frère ? : Implications inconscientes du dialogue israélo-arabe'', 1968 * ''La Racine et la source : Essais sur la judaïsme'', 1968 * ''Les voies et les pièges de la psychanalyse'', 1971 * ''Le Grand désarroi : Aux sources de l'énigme homosexuelle'', 1973 * ''La nature de la pensée inconsciente'', 1978 * ''La Onzième épreuve d'Abraham ou De la Fraternité'', 1981 * ''Lettres de Jerusalem'', 1983 * ''Le Moïse de Freud'''', ou, La référence occultée'', 1984 * ''Job : réponse à Jung'', 1991 * ''La nevrose plurielle'', 1992 * ''La dignité des mots'', 1995 * ''La Poétique du Zohar'', 1996 * ''Penser ou/et rêver: Mécanismes et objectifs de la pensée en Occident et dans le Judaïsme'', 1997 * ''L'Imagination : Philosophie et tradition juive'', 1998 * ''La nature de la pensée inconsciente'', 1999

References

External links

Prof. Levy-Valensi in The Department of Jewish Philosophy

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