Background

Eliane Levy-Valensi was born on May 11, 1919, in Marseilles, Centre, France, in an old Jewish family of Italian origin. She was the daughter of Felix Abraham Levy Valensi and Emma Edma Sofia Allatini. In 1930 she moved with her parents to Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne) near Paris.

Education

Eliane Levy-Valensi attended religious classes with the Chief Rabbi of Marseille. She received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from National Center for Scientific Research.

In 1968 Eliane Levy-Valensi emigrated to Israel.

Career

Eliane Levy-Valensi was appointed to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and later became a lecturer at the Sorbonne University. In 1968 she immigrated to Israel and was appointed Professor of Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University.

Author of 14 books and over 250 publications on philosophy, theology, psychoanalysis, etc. In her research, Eliane Levy-Valensi has dealt extensively with the relationship between Judaism and psychology. Set 2 paint exhibitions in Jerusalem (1972, 1973).

Achievements

• Eliane Levy-Valensi evolved a practical and theoretical system wherein the Jewish and the general human points of view were indissolubly linked.
  
  A psychoanalyst who opposed the closed nature of psychoanalytical societies, she founded in 1965, together with Dr. Veil and Professor Sivadon, an interdisciplinary center for psychoanalysis.

Works

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  • La dignité des mots

    (Collection Les empêcheurs de penser en rond, French Edition)

    1995
  • Penser ou/et rêver: Mécanismes et objectifs de la pensée en Occident et dans le Judaïsme

    (Collection Les empêcheurs de penser en rond, French Edition)

    1997
  • La Nature de la Pensee Inconsciente

    (Etudes de Psychologie Et de Philosophie, French Edition)

    1978
  • Le Temps dans la vie psychologique

    (Nouvelle bibliothèque scientifique, French Edition)

    1992
  • Le Moïse de Freud, ou, La référence occultée

    (Collection Hatsour, French Edition)

    1984
  • Job: Réponse à Jung

    (Parole présente, French Edition)

    1991
  • La poétique du Zohar

    (Eclat, French Edition)

    1996
  • A la gauche du Seigneur, ou, L'illusion idéologique

    (French Edition)

    1987
  • Les rapports intersubjectifs en psychanalyse: La vocation du sujet. Thèse complémentaire pour le Doctorat ès lettres

    (French Edition)

    1962
  • Le dialogue psychanalytique: Les rapports intersubjectifs en psychanalyse, la vocation du sujet

    (French Edition)

    1962
  • La onzième épreuve d'Abraham: Ou De la fraternité

    (French Edition)

    1981

Membership

Member of Cultural Commission, World Jewish Congress, Societe Francaise de Philosophie, the European center of Culture, and American Centre of Jewish Studies.

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  World Jewish Congress , France

• Societe Francaise de Philosophie , France

• American Centre of Jewish Studies , United States

• Cultural Commission

• European centre of Culture

Connections

Eliane Levy-Valensi married Max Amado in 1942 and divorced from him in 1953. In 1960 she married Claude Veil, a psychiatrist, and professor, and divorced from him in 1969.

Father:

Felix Abraham Levy Valensi

Mother:

Emma Edma Sofia Allatini

Spouse:

Max Amado

Spouse:

Claude Veil

Brother:

Alfred Moïse Levy Valensi

Friend:

Francine Bloch

References

• Dictionnaire des Marseillaises
  2012