Full Description
Though Freud is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, too little attention has been paid to the influence of his Jewish identity upon his life and work, particularly the impact of growing up a Jew in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The 14 essays in this volume explore the ways in which Freud and his followers were embedded in the cultural matrix of Jewish Central and Eastern Europe.
Topics include general, sociological, historical, and cultural issues and then turn to the personal: Freud's education, his Jewish identity, and his thoughts about Judaism. Though a secular and ambivalent Jew, Freud's emphasis on intellectualism and morality reveal the deep and abiding influence of European Jewish tradition upon his work.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Hidden in Plain Sight: Freud's Jewish Identity Revisited
Jill Salberg
Assimilation and Affirmation: The Jews of Freud's Vienna
Marsha L. Rozenblit
Being Mr. Somebody: Freud and Classical Education
Richard H. Armstrong
The Neue Freie Presse Neurosis: Freud, Karl Kraus, and the Newspaper as Daily Devotional
Leo A. Lensing
Sigmund Freud and Electrotherapy
Sander L. Gilman
Anti-Semitism in the Freud Case Histories
Harold P. Blum
Freud's Theory of Jewishness: For Better and for Worse
Eliza Slavet
Freud and Levinas: Talmud and Psychoanalysis Before the Letter
Ethan Kleinberg
Freud's Moses and Viennese Jewish Modernism
Abigail Gillman
Freud's Michelangelo: The Sculptural Meditations of a Hellenized
Mary Bergstein
Freud, Moses, and Akhenaten
Florence Dunn Friedman
Sigmund Freud in Exile: The End of an Illusion
Frank Mecklenburg
"Leaving This World with Decency": Psychoanalytical Considerations on Suicide in the Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
Benigna Gerisch
Freud's Jewish World: A Historical Perspective
Steven Beller
About the Contributors
Index
