caa a22 4500 445301848 CHVBK 20180317142600.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20100901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12124-010-9118-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12124-010-9118-7 Neuman Yair Office for Interdisciplinary Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box653, 84105, Beer-Sheva, Israel aut Empathy: From Mind Reading to the Reading of a Distant Text [Elektronische Daten] [Yair Neuman] In the psychoanalytic literature empathy is commonly discussed as a form of "mind reading”, which is deeply associated with the capacity to mirror the other's mental state. In this paper, I propose an alternative perspective on empathy as the process of reading a distant text. This perspective is illustrated through a Talmudic story and by weaving a thread between Bakhtin, Bion and Lacan. The paper concludes by pointing to the danger of empathy as a hidden form of projective identification that provides the reader with a false sense of control rather than with negative capability for otherness. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Empathy nationallicence Psychoanalysis nationallicence Semiotics nationallicence Talmud nationallicence Interpretation nationallicence Interdisciplinarity nationallicence Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Springer-Verlag 44/3(2010-09-01), 235-244 1932-4502 44:3<235 2010 44 12124 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9118-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9118-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Neuman Yair Office for Interdisciplinary Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box653, 84105, Beer-Sheva, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Springer-Verlag 44/3(2010-09-01), 235-244 1932-4502 44:3<235 2010 44 12124 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer