ABSTRACT
In contrast the domain of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, is the soul, a person's holy, timeless essence. Kabbalah also focuses upon worlds and worlds within worlds. So a further way of looking at both psychoanalysis and Kabbalah, a further refinement, is that these two disciplines aim to explore the obvious and the esoteric, the conscious and unconscious aspects of existence. Traditionally, Jews, and especially those initiated into Kabbalah, believe that the Torah is the word of God. Sigmund Freud was familiar with Jewish mystical texts. Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah are theories about the nature of existence. The particular domain of psychoanalysis is the head and the heart, "the self," the totality of an individual's mind and emotions. The depressive position, when the child becomes more concerned with preserving another, is a psychological milestone. It marks the onset of mental and emotional integration. Freud, consciously or unconsciously, secularized Jewish mysticism; and psychoanalysis can intelligently be viewed as such a secularization.
