This paper examines the manner in which dream-figures reflect the identity issues of the dreamer. The relationship between the various figures which populate a given dream are explored in terms of a hermeneutic of contextuality.
The Last Temptation of Christ, the controversial film of Martin Scorsese from 1988, with its peculiar mix of traditional and new elements, all given very realistically and in historical context, provoked a vehement reaction from conservative American Christians, who had tried to save the souls of their brothers and sisters waiting for hours in line for tickets; they tried not only verbal and physical persuasion, but also put bombs in theaters or made bomb threats.
In this work I attempt to explain one aspect of the paradox present in the figure of the Suffering Servant in Four Songs which are to be found in Second Isaiah. If not stated otherwise, I am using the NAB translation, that is: New American Standard Bible from 1995.
During a session of psychotherapy, a woman of forty who left her husband for another woman said to me briskly, "I've read enough to know what love is." I no longer remember what she thought love was or where she went from there but I remember her one line precisely: "I've read enough to know what love is."
