The Ordeal Of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity

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Manners maketh man. ". . . Freudianism, like Marxism, supplied the transformation formulas by which the "Jewish question"--that is, the *normative* "social conflicts" of emancipating Jewry (their "offensive behavior")--could be translated into *cognitive* "scientific problems." In this way, ritual social interaction offenses were "accounted for" as "depth" problems for which the offending parties were not responsible. Social conflict--i.e., the "Jewish problem"--was thus honorably buried in cognitive structures. Social delicts became mental symptoms. . . . " --Introduction, p.6 "Centuries before Sigmund Freud published his *Interpretation of Dreams* (1900), the Jews had a saying: 'In sleep, it is not the man who sins--but his dream.' -- Leo Rosten: "The Joys of Yiddish" (1971), p.21 N.B.: no entry for the book appears in Robert Singerman's "Antisemitic Propaganda: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide" (1982) a.k.a., the "Singerman Index".