Freud, race, and gender
By: Sander L. Gilman.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Religion; Judaism and psychoanalysis; Antisemitism -- Psychological aspects -- History; Medicine -- Austria -- Vienna -- History; Jewish men -- Psychology -- History; Ethnopsychology; Freudian Theory; Gender Identity; Race Relations
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 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. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-265) and index.