Archivos de Ciencia e Investigación(ADCI)

Former Clinical Director, PA Program, Borra College of Health Sciences, Dominican University, USA

Publications

• Review Article   
  The Migration of the Image: Zelem from the Rabbinic Body of Light to Infinity Without Thought
  Author(s): Julian Ungar-Sargon*
  
  This essay traces a single theological trajectory across nineteen centuries: the migration of the divine image (zelem) from a location to a dimension, from a dimension to a psyche, from a psyche to a linguistic veil, and finally to a marginal disturbance in an infinity that does not know it happened. The rabbis, on Alon Goshen Gottstein's reading, meant by zelem the body — a luminous body, but a body, occupying a place and susceptible to injury. The first kabbalists, on Sandra Valabregue-Perry's reading, dissolved that location into an infinite vertical axis by two conceptual moves: the deification of the sefirot and the collapse of Sefer Yetsirah's multidirectional expansion into a single ascending line. Erich Neumann interiorized the axis, mapping Eyn-sof onto the creative unconscious and tzimtzum onto the contraction of the ego. Elliot R. Wolfson stripped the imag.. Read More»
  

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