Freud, Race, and Gender Revised Edition Contributor(s): Gilman, Sander L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 069102586X ISBN-13: 9780691025865 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $48.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1995 Annotation: This study hopes to provide a new reading Freud's interpretation of the meaning of 'race' and its relationship to constructions of ideas of 'gender' at the turn of the century. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - History | Jewish - General |
Dewey: 150.195 |
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.11" W x 9.26" (0.87 lbs) 293 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
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Publisher Description: 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. |