Research Fellow – Dr. Anat Tzur Mahalel
Anat Tzur Mahalel (Ph.D.) is a Clinical psychologist; research associate, Bucerius Institute, University of Haifa; staff member, advanced program for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Tel Aviv University.
Her major areas of interest are the history of psychoanalysis; the relation of psychoanalysis to literature and philosophy; and German Jewish studies, especially the life and work of Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin. Among her publications, articles about Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, H. D., and Georges Perec. Tzur Mahalel’s book Reading Freud’s Patients: Memoir, Narrative and the Analysand received the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis book award and was published by Routledge, 2020
2017–2020 University of Haifa, Post Doctorate, Interdisciplinary Research Program in
Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis and humanities, Sigmund Freud, memoir and
autobiography
2011–2016 University of Haifa, PhD, (Psychoanalysis and comparative literature, history of
psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud and his patients.)
2000–2003 Ben-Gurion University, MA, (Clinical Psychology)
1997–2000 University of Haifa, BA, (Psychology and Honors Program in the Humanities)
2005–2009 University of Haifa, Diploma studies, Advanced School of Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy
- “Georges Perec’s Zeit-Raum: Creating a Space of Remembrance.” Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, in press.
- “’Are We Dead’: Time in H.D.’s Dialogue with Freud.” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 102 (2): (2021) 297-314.
- Reading Freud’s Patients: Memoir, Narrative, and the Analysand. History of Psychoanalysis series. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.
- “Pues nuestro jardín de recuerdos está en otro lugar”: narraciones sobre separación a través de los ojos de los pacientes de Freud,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis (en español) 3, no. 6, 2020.
- “The Psychoanalyst and the Poet: Allusions to Goethe’s Poetics and Persona in the Memoirs of Freud’s Analysands,” in The Psyche Beetle: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Psychoanalysis. Tel Aviv: Bar Ilan University and Resling, 2020: 519–552.
- Reading Freud’s Patients: Analysis Stories through a New Perspective. Narcissus series. Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2020. (Hebrew).
- “Writing like a Dog Digging a Hole, a Rat Digging Its Burrow”: Reading Freud’s Patients,” Ma’arag—The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis, (2020)
- “The Secret of the Object in Its Veil: The case study and memoir of the Wolf-Man,” Sihot – Journal of Psychotherapy, forthcoming.
- “The Wolf Man’s Glückshaube: Rereading Sergei Pankejeff’s Memoir.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 67 no. 5 (2019): 789–813
- “Memory, Mourning and Writing: Abram Kardiner’s Memoir of Freud,” Psychoanalytic Review 105, no. 4 (2018): 397–424.
- “’For Our Garden of Remembrance Is Somewhere Else’: Narratives of Separation through the Eyes of Freud’s Patients,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 98, no. 6 (2017): 1719–39.
- “’These Are a Poet’s Lines’: On a Forgotten Childhood Poem in H. D.’s Memoir,” Dappim Literature Research 20 (2016): 48–63 (Hebrew).
- ‘Discovering an Unexplored Region of the Human Soul’: Reading the Wolf Man’s Memoirs,” Ma’arag—The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis 6 (2015): 129–47 (Hebrew).