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Valerie Ovid Giovanini, Persecution and Morality: Intersections and Tensions between Freud and Levinas

Valerie Ovid Giovanini, Persecution and Morality: Intersections and Tensions between Freud and... 104 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HISTORY (2022) 24(1) Valerie Ovid Giovanini, Persecution and Morality: Intersections and Tensions between Freud and Levinas (Cham: Springer, 2021; 187 pp.); reviewed by Stephen Frosh DOI: 10.3366/pah.2022.0413 If the twentieth century was marked by the mass destruction of European Jewry, it was also a period in which the impact of some of these Jews, preceding or surviving the Holocaust/Shoah, was immense. Sigmund Freud was exemplary in this respect: no one doubts the lasting effect of his thought, even if its scientific accuracy, therapeutic efficacy and political and social acuity might be contested. The vision of human life that he offered, with its emphasis both on those forces that operate on us ‘unconsciously’ and on the complex interchanges this produces with society (or ‘civilization’), is one that has permeated many cultures, especially in Europe and the Americas, but elsewhere too. Its core feature is to demonstrate that the questions surrounding what it means to live a ‘good life’ are only answerable from within the context of awareness that psychosocial integrity is precarious, being constructed out of an encounter between what we do not know about ourselves ‘internally’ and what we cannot control in the social world. If http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychoanalysis and History Edinburgh University Press

Valerie Ovid Giovanini, Persecution and Morality: Intersections and Tensions between Freud and Levinas

Frosh, Stephen
Psychoanalysis and History , Volume 24 (1): 3 – Apr 1, 2022
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104 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HISTORY (2022) 24(1) Valerie Ovid Giovanini, Persecution and Morality: Intersections and Tensions between Freud and Levinas (Cham: Springer, 2021; 187 pp.); reviewed by Stephen Frosh DOI: 10.3366/pah.2022.0413 If the twentieth century was marked by the mass destruction of European Jewry, it was also a period in which the impact of some of these Jews, preceding or surviving the Holocaust/Shoah, was immense. Sigmund Freud was exemplary in this respect: no one doubts the lasting effect of his thought, even if its scientific accuracy, therapeutic efficacy and political and social acuity might be contested. The vision of human life that he offered, with its emphasis both on those forces that operate on us ‘unconsciously’ and on the complex interchanges this produces with society (or ‘civilization’), is one that has permeated many cultures, especially in Europe and the Americas, but elsewhere too. Its core feature is to demonstrate that the questions surrounding what it means to live a ‘good life’ are only answerable from within the context of awareness that psychosocial integrity is precarious, being constructed out of an encounter between what we do not know about ourselves ‘internally’ and what we cannot control in the social world. If

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