Subject: ✤Available today from Chiron: Why Odysseus Came Home as a Stranger and Other Puzzling Moments in the Life of Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Abraham, and other Great Individuals

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Releasing today from Chiron: Why Odysseus Came Home as a Stranger and Other Puzzling Moments in the Life of Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Abraham, and other Great Individuals 


Author Henry Abramovitch comes from a culture that encourages people to ask why. As a Jungian analyst, he also values questions.  In reading the life stories of “Great Individuals,” he often found himself asking the question, “Why?” 

Why did Arjuna, greatest general of his age refuse to fight? Why did Socrates remember his debt to Ascalapius, the god of healing, only in his last breath? Why did Jesus, the prophet of love, curse an innocent fig tree? Why did Odysseus come home as a stranger?

The short essays in this book do not try to answer these questions, but they do provide a response, enriched by Jewish tradition and Jungian psychology.


Henry Abramovitch Ph.D is training analyst and founding President of Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology. He is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University Medical School and former President of Israel Anthropology Association. 

He is the author of Brothers and Sisters:Myth and Reality as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He co-authored with Murray Stein the play, The Analyst and the Rabbi. He lives and practices in Jerusalem.
Table of Contents
  • Preface / 1
  • Why Arjuna Refused to Fight / 5
  • Why Odysseus Came Home
  • Dressed Like a Stranger / 23
  • Why Socrates Remembered / 41
  • Why the Buddha Remained Silent/ /61
  • Why Did Jonah Sit in the Shade? / 73
  • Why Jesus Cursed a Fig Tree / 83
  • Why Job Became the First Feminist / 93
  • Why Abraham Agreed to Kill / 97
  • Why Did Lot’s Wife Look Back? / 119
  • Notes / 129
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