Fragments of Jewish Identity

It has sometimes been suggested that works on psychoanalysis, rather than being shelved in psychology sections in bookshops and libraries, should instead be listed under "Jewish Studies." This is not quite as whimsical as it might seem: not only have psychoanalysts often been Jewish, but those who are not Jewish are frequently thought of as if they were. In addition, it can be argued that psychoanalysis is heavily indebted to, and informed by, "Jewish" perspectives, attitudes, ethics, and methodological approaches. Starting as it did with Freud, its origins were deeply embedded in the secular Jewish culture of the late nineteenth century, at a time in Europe when Jewish and other identities were being debated and undergoing radical change (Yerushalmi 1991). Anti-Semitism was a powerful political and cultural force, science was struggling with religion, romanticism was having its nostalgic last gasp, and the revolutionary movements of the twentieth century in politics, science, and the arts were being born. The Jews were both inside and outside Western society: newly "emancipated" and able to claim influential positions, yet still victims of social exclusion, anti-Semitic populism, and new forms of "racial" anti-Semitism that were gradually replacing the old Christian anti-Judaism

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• Psychosocial textuality

  Open Access•Stephen Frosh•Subjectivity•2010

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• Turning Back

  Stephen Frosh•Studies in Gender and Sexuality•2016

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• Frantz Fanon and revolutionary group praxis

  Open Access•E Burman•Group Analysis•2021

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• Unheroic conduct

  Daniel Boyarin•Unheroic conduct•1997

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• The interpretation of dreams.

  Sigmund Freud, Joyce Crick et al.•The interpretation of dreams•1913

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