Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Psychoanalytic Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
91,3 (2004) 309-330
Keywords:
Freud, Sigmund,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Discusses psychoanalysis as a response to antisemitism, especially to European stereotypes about the Jewish body that focused on sex, including the fear of castration that non-Jews tended to associate with circumcision. Freud responded to the supposedly unique Jewish character by arguing that feminization of the male was not specific to Jews but rather universal. Since Freud feared that antisemites would denigrate psychoanalysis as merely a Jewish national affair, he was eager to bring into the "family" of psychoanalysts non-Jews like Jung (whose antisemitism he tended to overlook) and Ernest Jones. Connects "Moses and Monotheism" with Freud's assertiveness of his Jewish identity in the face of antisemitism, particularly in the 1930s with the rise of Nazism. Among the sources of antisemitism identified in this work are jealousy of the Jews' "chosenness", Christians' projection of resentment connected with their own religion, and anxiety related to the Jews' being different. After the Nazi Anschluss of 1938, it was especially important for Freud, who left Vienna for London, to complete publication of this work, which emphasized Jewish rationality as contrasted with instinctual barbarity.
DOI:
10.1521/prev.91.3.309.38302
URL:
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