Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and MadnessA collection of essays dealing with stereotypes in language and in literary texts, especially those associating race with sexuality and pathology (organic disease or madness). The introduction (pp. 15-38) gives a psychological explanation of the need to create stereotypes of the Other and give them mythic negative characteristics in order to categorize and control the world. Negative stereotypes of Jews are discussed in ch. 6 (pp. 150-162), "The Madness of the Jews"; ch. 7 (pp. 162-174), "Race and Madness in I.J. Singer's 'The Family Carnovsky'"; ch. 8 (pp. 175-190), "Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Joke." |
Contents
Plates | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
What Are Stereotypes and Why Use Texts to Study Them? | 15 |
II | 35 |
Vienna | 39 |
The Nietzsche Murder Case or What Makes Dangerous Philosophies Dangerous | 59 |
Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality | 76 |
Black Sexuality and Modern Consciousness | 109 |
Race and Madness in I J Singers The Family Carnovsky | 163 |
Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Joke | 175 |
Sexology Psychoanalysis and Degeneration | 191 |
The Mad as Artists | 280 |
Conclusion Notes | 283 |
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Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness Sander L. Gilman,Sander Lawrence Gilman No preview available - 1985 |
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