... that the ethics at the core of both psychoanalysis and the Judeo-Christian tradition (as interpreted by Rosenzweig) is an ethics pertaining to one's answerability to his neighbor-with-an-unconscious. It also claims that it is precisely this sort of answerability that is at the heart of a person's very aliveness...

.... By bringing Freud and Rosenzweig together, it not only clarifies in new and surprising ways the profound connections between psychoanalysis and the Judeo-Christian tradition, but also makes the resources of both available to contemporary efforts to rethink concepts of community and cross-cultural...