Anti-semitism
Subtitle: a history and psychoanalysis of contemporary hatred
By: Avner Falk.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780313353840
Subjects: Antisemitism -- Psychological aspects; Antisemitism; Antisemitism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Judaism and psychoanalysis
Description: "In this far-reaching and comprehensive volume, Avner Falk delves deeply into the current events, history, and literature on anti-Semitism, integrating insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and political science. The result is an absorbing exploration of one of the oldest scourges of humanity, spotlighting the irrational and unconscious causes of anti-Semitism." "This book also features chapters on the psychodynamics of racism, fascism, Nazism, and the dark, tragic, and unconscious processes, both individual and collective, that led to the Shoah. Holocaust denial and its psychological motives, as well as insights into the physical and psychological survival strategies of Holocaust survivors, are explored in depth. There are also chapters on "scientific anti-Semitism" including eugenics."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "Kill the Jews dead"; title: What is anti-semitism?; title: Different types of antisemitism?; title: Jean-Paul Sartre and anti-semitism; title: Anti-semitism, eugenics, and racism; title: Xenophobia, nationalism, and anti-semitism; title: A short history of anti-semitism; title: Human child sacrifice and anti-semitism; title: Anti-semitism in antiquity; title: Medieval European anti-semitism; title: Christianity and anti-semitism; title: Martin Luther, the German Reformation, and the Jews; title: Modern and contemporary anti-semitism; title: A collective psychosis; title: Jewish self-hatred; title: Zionism and anti-semitism; title: Fighting antisemitism : zionists and anti-zionists; title: Muslim anti-semitism; title: Psychoanalysis and anti-semitism; title: Unconscious aspects of anti-semitism; title: Evil, racism, and anti-semitism; title: Imagining the Jew's body; title: Sigmund Freud and anti-semitism; title: Criticizing and expanding Freud's ideas; title: The inability to mourn; title: Individual and collective anti-semitism; title: The individual, the family, and anti-semitism; title: Collective psychological processes in anti-semitism; title: Psychological anti-semitism : the case of John Jay Ray; title: "Not an anti-semitic bone in my body"; title: "Evolutionary" antisemitism; title: Japanese anti-semitism : judeophobia without Jews; title: Psychoanalytic anti-semitism; title: The case of Carl Gustav Jung; title: The case of Masud KIhan; title: The case of Annemarie Dührssen; title: The case of Jacqueline Rose; title: A "ferocious silence"; title: Abusing psychohistory; title: Anti-semitism and the "Jewish science"; title: Nazism and the Holocaust; title: A "German-Jewish symbiosis"; title: The language of the Third Reich; title: "Ordinary men" and "eliminatory anti-semitism"; title: Psychoanalytic studies of nazism; title: Heinrich Himmler : bureaucratized mass murder; title: Were the Nazi murderers "normal"?; title: The Hannah Arendt controversy; title: Zygmunt Bauman : personal history and nazism; title: Recent psychoanalytic studies; title: "Mastering the past"; title: Modern French anti-semitism; title: Denying the Holocaust; title: The wonderful and awful twentieth century; title: Holocaust denial disguised as "historical revision"; title: The Foger Garaudy, "Abbé Pierre" affair; title: Special Holocaust survivors : "Jean Améry", Simon Wiesenthal, Leon Wieslicer; title: Related issues; title: Jews, women, and homosexuals; title: Literature and anti-semitism.