Freud, Race, and Gender

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Princeton University Press, 1993 - Biography & Autobiography - 277 pages

A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de siècle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. In this provocative book, Sander L. Gilman argues that Freud's internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis. Examining a variety of scientific writings, Gilman discusses the prevailing belief that male Jews were "feminized," as stated outright by Jung and others, and concludes that Freud dealt with his anxiety about himself as a Jew by projecting it onto other cultural "inferiors"--such as women. Gilman's fresh view of the origins of psychoanalysis challenges those who separate Freud's revolutionary theories from his Jewish identity.

 

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
3
CHAPTER
12
CHAPTER
49
36
57
Freud and Circumcision
70
CHAPTER THREE
106
CONCLUSION
169
The Circumcised Body as the Precipitating Factor for a Social
179
Notes
186
Index
251
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About the author (1993)

Sander L. Gilman is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago. He holds positions there as Professor of Germanic Studies and Professor of Psychiatry and is a member of the Fishbein Center for the History of Science and the Committee on Jewish Studies. He is a cultural and literary historian and the author or editor of over forty books.

Bibliographic information

TitleFreud, Race, and Gender
Book collections on Project MUSE
Princeton paperbacks
AuthorSander L. Gilman
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherPrinceton University Press, 1993
ISBN069102586X, 9780691025865
Length277 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists
History / Jewish
Psychology / History
Psychology / Human Sexuality
Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis
Social Science / Anthropology / Physical
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / Jewish Studies
  
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