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- Title
Anti-Semitism and the Body in Psychoanalysis.
- Authors
Gilman, Sander L.
- Abstract
This article considers the Jewish roots of psychoanalysis. The biological nature of the Jew helped form and frame structures and rhetoric of psychoanalysis. For Jewish American historian Peter Gay, the Jewishness of psychologist Sigmund Freud has nothing to do with psychoanalysis. To prove this, he uses religious, ethnic and political definitions of the Jew and demonstrates Freud's distance or at least his ambivalence to them. But writer Janet Malcolm, in her review of Masud Khan's book The Long Wait and Other Psychoanalytic Narratives, noted that Freud may have drawn on models of rabbinical self-effacement and unpretentiousness for his understanding of the character of the analyst. The fin-de-siècle image of the Wunderrabbi is an incomplete characterization of the rabbi in Freud's time. But Jewish for fin-de-siècle science has primarily a biological meaning and according to it, a Jew can never truly cast off one's Jewishness.
- Subjects
PSYCHOANALYSIS; ANTISEMITISM; JEWISH identity; MALCOLM, Janet, 1934-2021; KHAN, Masud; RHETORIC &; psychology; FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Social Research, 1990, Vol 57, Issue 4, p993
- ISSN
0037-783X
- Publication type
Article