Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Maj'shavot - Pensamientos
Angaben zur Quelle:
35,1-4 (1997) 30-41
Keywords:
Antisemitism History
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
Abstract:
Introduces a new theory explaining antisemitism on psychoanalytic grounds, based on Freud's use of the terms "heimlich" (familiar) and "unheimlich" (uncanny, ghastly), and the loss of the positive connotation of the familiar ("Das Unheimliche", 1919). Traces Christian-Jewish relations from the early times of mutual respect and fraternity ("heimlich") through the long process of competition and rivalry which culminated with massacres during the Crusades. After that, disdain prevailed, strengthened by blood libels and host desecration accusations, and marked by the requirement that Jews wear special clothes and the yellow badge, changing the image of the Jew into a devil, a "familiar" monster ("unheimlich"). In this "unheimlich" stage, the antisemite developed fear: fear of the Jews' vengeance for the killings, fear of their power of survival against all odds, fear of their mysterious "conspiracy" within the ghetto. The antisemites' guilt for genocide only nourished their fear of Jewish retaliation, calling for more genocide, and thus for the "final solution".
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