Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Angaben zur Quelle:
47,1 (1999) 35-63
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Stresses that, in psychoanalysis, antisemitism can best be dealt with as a psychic phenomenon in order to discover the most appropriate therapy for the patient. Core conflicts are often conveyed in terms of religious, racial, or ethnic stereotypes; patients tend to bring up antisemitic sentiments at critical times during treatment. Focusing on the period after World War II, presents three cases (of non-Jewish, Jewish, and half-Jewish patients) and states that antisemitism serves diverse defensive purposes, often involving split-off or projected aspects of the personality. On the basis of her own experience as a Jewish psychoanalyst in New York, concludes that analysts need to confront their own ambivalences rather than remain silent about such attitudes as antisemitism, which challenge their identities. Thus, potentially anxiety-producing information or situations can help establish peace between analyst and patient, as well as within each of them. Self-hatred is discussed in terms of the Jewish analysand.
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