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Freud, Race, and Gender

By Sander L. Gilman

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780691223001, 0691032459
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24913427 bytes)
Pages
293\294
Time added
2023-07-04 20:56:39

Description

A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de siècle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. In this provocative book, Sander L. Gilman argues that Freud's internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis. Examining a variety of scientific writings, Gilman discusses the prevailing belief that male Jews were "feminized," as stated outright by Jung and others, and concludes that Freud dealt with his anxiety about himself as a Jew by projecting it onto other cultural "inferiors"--such as women. Gilman's fresh view of the origins of psychoanalysis challenges those who separate Freud's revolutionary theories from his Jewish identity.

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