ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the unique creative activity which served King David as a means of communication in the treatment. David conveyed the struggle between his love and aggression by recounting stories from the Bible and the Kabbalah. The chapter examines the function of the stories from the perspective of Freudian, Kleinian, and contemporary migration models, and describes how their elaboration in analysis facilitated growth and development. From the prism of Freudian theory, the stories illustrate the conflict resulting from the interplay between David's unconscious incestuous wishes, which originated in his childhood, and the punishment they incurred. The structural model devised by S. Freud enables people to view the Bible stories that David recounted as repetitions of David's own story. The Bible stories told by David, while belonging to a far distant past, were relevant to his immediate present. His stories consisted of a series of enactments of different kinds of traumatic events, of loving as well as destructive relationships.
