If one views the role of a psychologist as one who assists another in gaining deeper insights into their lived experience with the assumption that this will lighten the psychological burdens one carries. Burdens that limit our perspectives. Unexamiined beliefs, assumptions that often limit our thinking, perspective, capacities, our abilities, our lives. If this in any way begins to define the role of psychology and psychologists, in helping all of us to more fully understand Zionism and the Jewish experience, we might think of this as one of the paths to not only a deeper understanding, but also to a global society literally unable to participate in any way in any form of cruelty.
In pondering Zionism, the Jewish experience over centuries and generations of being belitteled, marginalized, it seems to me to be obvious that the response would be to excel. To excel in creating wealth, excel in scholarship, excel in the arts. To develop a culture that not only values these, but inculcates in its children the necessity to excel. I must wonder, if this is the case, would it not lead to a sense of superiority? After all, your people have produced so many who have excelled. Does this not lead to a sense of 'exceptionalism'?
I think it worth examining the psychological factors that enable some of the Jewish faith to ignore or justify
If one views the role of a psychologist as one who assists another in gaining deeper insights into their lived experience with the assumption that this will lighten the psychological burdens one carries. Burdens that limit our perspectives. Unexamiined beliefs, assumptions that often limit our thinking, perspective, capacities, our abilities, our lives. If this in any way begins to define the role of psychology and psychologists, in helping all of us to more fully understand Zionism and the Jewish experience, we might think of this as one of the paths to not only a deeper understanding, but also to a global society literally unable to participate in any way in any form of cruelty.
In pondering Zionism, the Jewish experience over centuries and generations of being belitteled, marginalized, it seems to me to be obvious that the response would be to excel. To excel in creating wealth, excel in scholarship, excel in the arts. To develop a culture that not only values these, but inculcates in its children the necessity to excel. I must wonder, if this is the case, would it not lead to a sense of superiority? After all, your people have produced so many who have excelled. Does this not lead to a sense of 'exceptionalism'?
I think it worth examining the psychological factors that enable some of the Jewish faith to ignore or justify