ABSTRACT
In rabbinical Judaism, the body was regarded as the vehicle of the intellect. The body was not in opposition to the spirit, as it was in Christianity, but it did not contribute to the intellect either. Romantic longing, which has its basis in the unavailability of the beloved, was avoided through the arrangement of early marriages. The religious obligation to procreate emphasized male ejaculation while discouraging fore-pleasure. The Kabbalah rapidly eclipsed older forms of Jewish mysticism, and popularizations were developed. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Kabbalah became the vehicle of mass revival movements. Different Kabbalists developed a great many variations on the basic theme of the androgyny of the macroanthropos. Freud's association with Fliess and his reading of Hartmann both occurred in the 1890s, on the eve of his development of psychoanalysis. Freud acknowledged that his father taught him the Bible as a child and hired a tutor to further his Jewish education. Freud remembered tutor with affection.
