Contemporary psychoanalysis and religion: transference and transcendence

ground to be near the man he had loved, the lantern, how hands clasped other hands in a hut, the clasp of strangers who did not have a common tongue and came from such different civilizations."Emerson goes beyond the political rhetoric that usually surrounds talk of the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation.The book is a judgment against all who refuse to look at the ugly reality of a people under occupation-people who are, in Emerson's words, "penned in like barnyard animals.