Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Social Research
Angaben zur Quelle:
57,4 (1990) 993-1017
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Psychoanalysis and racism
;
Body image in men Psychological aspects
Abstract:
Discusses how the discourse on the biological nature of the Jew in fin-de-siècle Germany and Austria helped form and frame the structures and rhetoric of psychoanalysis. Describes the image of the Jew as physically different (and inferior) as expressed by psychoanalysts Frantz Fanon (1950s) and Masud Khan (1980s), as well as by the German writer Oskar Panizza in "The Operated Jew" (1893) and the satirical rejoinder to it by Salomo Friedlaender ("Mynona") in his "The Operated Goy" (1922). Discusses how circumcision became the key to marking the Jewish body as different within the parameters of "healthy" or "diseased", and Freud's response to this label of difference in terms of gender rather than race. Contends that Freud's theories are in fact a hidden narrative about racial difference, replicated by Khan and Fanon who emphasize the difference of the Jew's body from their own (Aryan Pakistani and Black Caribbean). Mentions the difficulties psychoanalysis has with "cultural" categories such as "race".
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