Éliane AMADO LÉVY-VALENSI (1919-2006) psychoanalyst... - Lot 305 - Ader

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Éliane AMADO LÉVY-VALENSI (1919-2006) psychoanalyst... - Lot 305 - Ader
Éliane AMADO LÉVY-VALENSI (1919-2006) psychoanalyst and philosopher. 39 L.A.S., Saint-Mandé and Israel 1965-1990, to Max Bilen; 81 pages in-4. Important correspondence exchanged around philosophical questions and their respective works, very often revolving around the Jewish question. [Max Bilen (1916-1995) was a professor of French literature at Tel Aviv University]. These themes are set out in the very first letter, dated August 26, 1965, which is typical of this rich correspondence: "I think, however, that what you say about the need for the Diaspora to be 'recognized' by Israel should be explored in greater depth. This is certainly true, but it only makes sense when reintroduced into the dialogue and with all the nuances, reticence, ways and pitfalls that characterize any human dialogue. The diasporic thinker indeed needs to be recognized by Israel and this need goes beyond him because it is the unity and the meaning of Jewish history that are in question. And, sometimes, the diasporic thinker tends to deny this need, to want to link himself to the history of "anxiety" and "exile" alone, by fallaciously detaching from it the mystique of the return. Conversely, the Israeli thinker suffers the attempt to deny his links with the diasporic thinker, to focus on his tasks, the urgencies of his destiny and the fact that in his eyes they complete the cycle of a useless martyrdom and a degrading exile. But on the historical and metaphysical scale, he too needs to be recognized by the diasporic thinker and to recognize him, because it is in this double and essential recognition that the meaning and the unity of a "history" that never ceases to happen are inscribed. The Mysticism of the Return and that of the Exile can in no way be detached from each other. Rooting and uprooting sum up, in the symbolism of the Jewish People, the whole history of man, the whole cosmogonic adventure sensed by the philosophers and, as you say in the other text (published in Ariel), by the poets. A set of draft letters from Max Bilen to Éliane Amado Lévy-Valensi (about 69 pp. in-8), as well as a typescript detailing the list of Éliane Amado Lévy-Valensi's works published or in progress (10 pp. in-4).
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