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

France

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-Israeli psychologist

Psychologist

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, psychoanalyst and philosopher.

Biography

Éliane Levy-Valensi was born in Marseille

Marseille

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 to a Jewish family. In 1930 she moved with her parents to Saint-Mande (Val-de-Marne) near Paris

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She studied philosophy

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. She admitted the Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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 (CNRS), preparing her doctoral thesis. She taught philosophy at the Sorbonne

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In 1968 she emigrated to Israel, and became a professor of philosophy at Bar-Ilan University

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.

She died in Jerusalem at May 10, 2006.

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

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