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Book reviewed in this article:Agnon vehatzimhonut (Agnon and Vegetarianism), Rena LeeJardin D'Eden Jardins D'Espagne, Masha Itzhaki and Michel Gare

Let's hope for fulfilment of the prophecy that was written in cuneiform on a clay tablet in ancient Babylon: 'The gods have grown angry at Babylon. The end of the world is approaching. Children have ceased to obey their parents. And everyone wants to write a book'. The following speech, slightly edited here, was given at the conference in Denmark in March 1988.

Scientific methods of a particular field of knowledge can not be freely applied to a different field without any adjustments or reservations. Openness to a different approach is detrimental here. According to Nothrop Frye, psychonalysis in literature tends to 'blur the lines between methods' (Frye 1979: 383) thus increasing openness. Therefore, the anxiety that exists between the theory of psychonalysis and the practice of psychoanalytic therapy will follow the application of psychoanalysis to other scientific fields. Solid grasp of the theory of psychoanalysis is incomplete without understanding its practical implementation in the domain of pain as its priviledged source of truth. Even Jacques Lacan emphasized this by distinguishing between understanding and knowing Jacques Derrida's psychoanalysis. The interdisciplinary activity, valued today as an important aspect of research, cannot be accomplished by simple confrontations between various specialized branches of knowledge. According to Roland Barthes, interdisciplinary work is not a peaceful operation: it begins effectively when the solidarity of the old disciplines breaks down to the benefit of a new object and a new language, neither of which is in the domain of those branches of knowledge that one calmly sought to confront (Barthes 1986b:181). Mirjana Lončar Vujnović proposes, following Barthes logic, to substitute the term psychoanalysis with the term 'experimental mysticism' (Lončar Vujnović 2014: 46). Her proposition has no semantic justification (and not only for its failed attempt at oxymoron) let alone scientific. The exploration of the unconscious psyche which is unknown and irrational - designated under certain circumstances as the exploration of the mystical as a hidden, secret part of a man's soul - was scrutinized in psychoanalysis by employing a rigorous scientific method in reverence to the methods of the natural sciences. Furthermore, due to the nomothetic-ideographic and discursive nature of psyche, psychoanalysis also included the hermeneutic method pertinent to the research of various symptoms and sintomas, as well asgenesis and telos.

In this article the importance of viewing colonialism as a historical process is discussed. Colonialism as a historical process has certain general phases and features , as well as general causes and effects . The first phase can be called the preamble to colonization , subsequent to which the establishment of a colonial structure takes place . During the existence of this structure , which has certain general political, economic and social features , processes of change occur with in the colonial society . Which in m any cases ultimately lead to the removal o r disappearance o f the colonial structure . Usually processes of integration and of conflict and resistance are both present, but in some cases the first process and in some the other process is the dominating one . After the colonial structure has come to an end , the last phase or aftermath of the colonial process follows.