Beneath the body of the text : body-images in the Song of Songs

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Van der Zwan, Pieter

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Unisa Press

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The various explicit references and descriptions of the different bodies in the Song of Songs have, just as characters, an “unconscious” which can be interpreted by psychoanalysis. These body-images are important as they unconsciously influence the recipients of the text and therefore need to be unpacked in a critical way. This will hopefully also show that the literal interpretations are flat reductions and a denial of a hidden depth of meaning.

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Song of Songs, Psychoanalysis, Body-images, Unconscious, Hermeneutics, Biblical interpretation

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Van der Zwan, P. 2017, 'Beneath the body of the text : body-images in the Song of Songs', Journal for Semitics, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 611-631.