Books

In 1944, C. G. Jung experienced a series of visions which he later described as “the most tremendous things I have ever experienced.” Central to these visions was the “mystic marriage as it appears in the Kabbalistic tradition”, and Jung’s experience of himself as “Rabbi Simon ben Jochai,” the presumed author of the sacred Kabbalistic […]

In “Archetype of the Absolute: The Union of Opposites in Mysticism, Philosophy and Psychology,” Sanford Drob traces the “problem of the opposites” in the history of ideas and develops the thesis that apparent oppositions in philosophy, including those that underlie competing paradigms in psychology, are complementary rather than contradictory. The doctrine of the complementarity and […]

Kabbalistic Metaphors: Jewish Mystical Themes in Ancient and Modern Thought (Jason Aronson, 2000)  places the major symbols of the theosophical Kabbalah into a dialogue with several systems of ancient and modern thought, including Indian philosophy, Platonism, Gnosticism, and the works of Hegel, Freud, and Jung. The author shows how the Kabbalah organizes a series of ancient […]

Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (Jason Aronson, 2000) provides a philosophical and psychological interpretation of the theosophical Kabbalah. It shows that the Kabbalah, particularly as it is expressed in the school of Isaac Luria, provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the cosmos, and humanity’s role within it, that is intellectually, morally, and […]

Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue (Peter Lang, 2009). In this volume Dr. Drob examines the convergence between Jewish mystical ideas and the thought of Jacques Derrida, the founder of “deconstruction,” and puts this convergence in the service of a theology that not only survives the challenges of atheism, cultural relativism, and anti-foundationalism, but welcomes and includes […]