Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
49 (2004) 87-104
Keywords:
Freud, Sigmund,
;
Freud, Sigmund,
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Notes Freud's early ambivalence toward assimilation and rising antisemitism, and his strong reaction to his father's unheroic failure to confront an antisemite. Stresses Freud's pride in asserting his ethnic Jewishness in the face of his treatment as a pariah by fellow Austrians, in particular Viennese. "Moses and Monotheism" (1939) is the only text in which Freud attempted a psychoanalysis of antisemitism. It partially holds Moses responsible for Jew-hatred, viewed as a projection by pagans (ancient and modern) of a hatred of Christianity. Although, in Great Britain, Freud worried about his sisters in Austria (four of whom were killed by the Nazis), his "Moses" did not develop a specific psychology of antisemitism or suggest a political way for Jews to survive the antisemitism that was building toward the Holocaust.
Note:
On Freud's Jewish identity and on his "Moses and Monotheism" as an attempt to psychoanalyze the phenomenon of antisemitism.
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/49.1.87
URL:
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