On Freud's Jewish body; mitigating circumcisions
Reference & Research Book News, May, 2008
On Freud's Jewish body; mitigating circumcisions.
Geller, Jay.
Fordham University Press
2007
355 pages
$28.00
Paperback
BF109
Freud famously labeled himself as "a completely godless Jew," yet maintained a lifelong identification with Judentum (German: the Jewish religion/people/custom). Geller (modern Jewish culture, Vanderbilt Divinity School) analyzes the implications of this paradox for Freud's life and development of psychoanalysis. Circumcision plays a key role in this analysis because of its literal embodiment of Jews' otherness, symbolic link with the Freudian castration complex, and the majority Germanic view of Jewish men of the period as feminized. Freud's books and correspondence are listed.
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