Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Angaben zur Quelle:
77,1 (1996) 15-31
Keywords:
Antisemitism History
;
Christianity and antisemitism
Abstract:
A lecture delivered at the International Psychoanalytical Association Congress in San Francisco, August 1995, based on material from the author's book "Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of Antisemitism" (1995). Examines several antisemitic myths throughout Jewish history (medieval blood libels, Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", racial antisemitism, contemporary Islamic antisemitism, and the mythology of fundamentalist groups). The only constant in all these cases is that the Jew is depicted as a source of evil, a demonic force. States that there are no specific social or political conditions that favor antisemitism; no specific accusations characterize antisemitism. Similarly, antisemitism is not correlated with any psychopathology. The antisemitic mythology is congenial to an apocalyptical frame of mind, which in some cases may grow to apocalyptic paranoia.
Note:
In Italian: "La psicoanalisi e l'antisemitismo" (1999).
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