Freud and Judaism

By Freud, Sigmund, David Meghnazi (Ed.)
Karnac Books, 1993, Paperback, 208 pp., ISBN: 1855750023, $40.99

In this collection of essays, which are wide-ranging in terms of approach and style, there can be found studies that are representative of the tendencies in research during the last few years.

From the biographical and psychological approach explaining this connection through the existence of a "particular Jewish tendency" or "outlook" deriving from the special social and existential condition of the Jew in modern society, to the approach establishing a parallel between the history of thought and of the psychoanalytic institution on the one hand and the history of contemporary Judaism in the face of the phenomenon of assimilation on the other; from the reconstruction of the historical context in which Freud found himself working, to the identification of anti-Jewish drives within clinical practice itself. From the publisher