Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Australian Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (2001) 72-87
Keywords:
Antisemitism History
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
Abstract:
A paper delivered at the conference "Psychoanalysis among the Disciplines, " University of Michigan, 1994. Reflects on the nature of antisemitism and ways to overcome it in contemporary Western society. In the context of psychoanalysis, interprets antisemitism as part of a person's inherited cultural tradition. The social sciences and psychoanalysis, operating together, need to expose the genesis of this antisemitic tradition - the way in which historical experiences of feudal and capitalist societies with Jewish minorities came to be transformed into social mythology. After the Holocaust, antisemitism became a form of xenophobia. Calls on psychoanalysts to engage in critical examination and relativization of this difficult cultural inheritance, and to develop a transnational ("cosmopolitan, " "internationalist") identity. Antisemitism and xenophobia should be held in contempt and outlawed.
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