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Freud's Jewish Identity: A Case Study in the Impact of Ethnicity (review)

Freud's Jewish Identity: A Case Study in the Impact of Ethnicity (review) Book Reviews Freud's Jewish Identity: A Case Study in the Impact of Ethnicity, by Jerry Victor Diller. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991. 243 pp. $38.50. The author of Freud's jewish Identity begins his thesis with the sentence that "The history of psychoanalysis is inextricably bound up with the ethnic identity of its founder, Sigmund Freud." Such a synthesis or, depending on one's viewpoint, contamination has been a point of contention since the dawn of psychoanalysis. This book is representative of the plethora of biographical and psychohistorical volumes of recent vintage on Freud, with particular reference to the nature of his ethnoreligious identity and its influence on his work. Among the contributors to this theme, there is no consensus as to the affinity between his Jewishness and psychoanalysis. For example, Freud's atheism was perceived a central contribution in Hans Kling's Freud and the Problem of God (1990). Peter Gay, describing Freud as an imperious atheist in A Godlessjew (1987), did not consider Judaism as essential to the conception of psychoanalysis. Emanuel Rice, in Freud and Moses: The Longjourney Home (1990), asserts that the eady upbringing in a traditional Jewish household and the lifelong cultural affiliation with Jews http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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Book Reviews Freud's Jewish Identity: A Case Study in the Impact of Ethnicity, by Jerry Victor Diller. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991. 243 pp. $38.50. The author of Freud's jewish Identity begins his thesis with the sentence that "The history of psychoanalysis is inextricably bound up with the ethnic identity of its founder, Sigmund Freud." Such a synthesis or, depending on one's viewpoint, contamination has been a point of contention since the dawn of psychoanalysis. This book is representative of the plethora of biographical and psychohistorical volumes of recent vintage on Freud, with particular reference to the nature of his ethnoreligious identity and its influence on his work. Among the contributors to this theme, there is no consensus as to the affinity between his Jewishness and psychoanalysis. For example, Freud's atheism was perceived a central contribution in Hans Kling's Freud and the Problem of God (1990). Peter Gay, describing Freud as an imperious atheist in A Godlessjew (1987), did not consider Judaism as essential to the conception of psychoanalysis. Emanuel Rice, in Freud and Moses: The Longjourney Home (1990), asserts that the eady upbringing in a traditional Jewish household and the lifelong cultural affiliation with Jews

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press

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