Dr. Carlo Strenger will offer an analysis of the internal forces in Israeli society that make Israeli intractable and mostly unintelligible from abroad, connecting these internal dynamics to the rise of right wing populism, a phenomenon that appeared in Israel before it took center stage in Europe and the United States.
Carlo Strenger is an existential psychoanalyst, philosopher and public intellectual and serves as Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Tel Aviv University.
Strenger is Senior Research Fellow of the Center of Terrorism Studies at John Jay College, the Seminar of Existential Psychoanalysis in Zurich, on the Terrorism Monitoring Panel of the World Federation of Scientists, and the Scientific Board of the Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna.
He has been practicing existential psychoanalysis and consulted with executives, entrepreneurs, academics, businesspeople and artists, particularly at junctures of life changes for twenty-five years. In the last decade he is also working with clients over Skype video to meet the needs of professionals who travel frequently or live outside Israel.
Strenger has published numerous papers and books. His work has been reported on, and he has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Time Magazine as well as hundreds of newspapers and websites in more than twenty languages.
As a publicist he writes primarily on Israeli politics and the Middle Eastern conflict and cultural issues. He is a columnist at Israel’s leading Newspaper Haaretz, and at Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and occasionally writes in The New York Times, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Foreign Policy.
