4 papers in the library · 63 citations · publishing 1989-2024
Ideas of Possession October 29, 2024 Yoram Bilu
Abstract The historical trajectory of the dybbuk, the Jewish variant of spirit possession, begins in the sixteenth century and declines at the beginning of the twentieth century. The dybbuk emerged in an “ecological niche” where the mystical doctrines of gilgul (the transmigration of souls) and ibbur (impregnation) became widespread, and the body became the object of scrutiny and control....
May 8, 2018 Yoram Bilu 17 citations
This chapter discusses the peculiar career of a Jewish woman in a nineteenth-century Eastern European Hasidic community, a career ended by an episode of dybbuk possession. Although various concepts of internalization and externalization are employed in this work, it is particularly projective identification which seems intriguingly related to spirit possession. While case studies of spirit...
February 20, 2018 Yoram Bilu 1 citation
This chapter discusses a peculiar career of a Jewish woman in a 19th century Eastern European hasidic community, which was ended by an episode of dybbuk-possession . The case was selected for presentation because, unlike most other reports of this Jewish variant of spirit possession, it contains significant information concerning the social matrix in which it evolved, as well as the biographies...
Political Psychology September 1, 1989 Yoram Bilu 45 citations
More than 2000 written dream reports were collected from Jewish and Arab fifth to seventh graders living in various settings in Israel and the West Bank. From this general dream sample 212 encounter dreams (dealing with the other side on the manifest level) were extracted. The content analysis of the dreams supports Calvin Hall's continuity hypothesis: judging from the prevalence of encounter...