![]() The disapproval from the community did not hold back Asher back from reaching for his inner individual desires.Īsher’s decisions to embrace his artistic talents not only divided him from his community but also required him to sacrifice his family unity. Creating the nude art work for the exhibit divided him from his religion to an extent which he “crossed a boundary” and was now “alone”. ![]() As Asher ages and develops as an artist, his devotion to his art again rebels against his community and family values. His unconscious desire to be his own person “need all strength and left Asher seeing only one path a path contrary the values of his community. ![]() This conflict started for Asher at an early age when he was struggling to study the Torah as a “boy age should” rather than drawing faces of the Rebbe and scribbling in his Hebrew notebooks. My Name Is Asher Lev portrays conflict between the protagonist’s artistic impulses and the conventions of Hasidic community he’s growing up in. ![]()
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