The psychological meanings of the Old Testament stories in the interpretation of the psychotherapist Peter Pitzele and in a fascinating form of psychodrama.
American Peter Pitzele, a Jew by birth, a spiritual seeker by vocation, and a psychotherapist by profession, takes the reader on an epic adventure through the myths of Genesis. Since the author’s specialty is psychodrama, he plays with his clients the stories of the Old Testament in the faces, allowing them to get used to these powerful images. Thanks to this, the reader has the opportunity not only to explore the plots themselves, discovering new meanings in them (“the myth of Paradise Lost is a story about the loss of femininity; this is a romantic masculine elegy about an idealized past when we were one with her, and this loss of unity with her we experience as a kind of betrayal or rejection”), but also to hear the lively voices of the characters, to learn “from the first person” about their feelings and motives. Here says Eve (that is, the woman who plays her role): “It was not the Serpent who tempted me, I did not need his invitation. Deep down, I knew that the apple would make me completely equal to a man, co-owner of all living things. As soon as I desired it, the Serpent lost its meaning. This is a lost paradise, the very beginning, and ahead is the Tower of Babel, the Great Flood, a father sacrificing his son, the story of rival sisters Leah and Rachel …
KLASS, 320 p.