Main description:

After first having been denied, the Jewish element in the works of Freud has been variously studied from many different points of view. In this wide-ranging collection, 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 conne

Contents:

FOREWORD -- Preface -- 'Wir Und Der Tod' -- Judaism and Psychoanalysis -- A cultural event within Judaism -- Historical Aspects -- Some thoughts on Freud's attitude during the Nazi period -- Cultural Aspects -- The Jew as an ethical figure -- Humour as a Jewish vocation and the work of Woody Allen -- 'Moses and Monotheism' -- The logic of Freudian research -- Applied Psychoanalytic Studies -- Psychoanalysis between assimilation and proselytism -- Psychopathology of everyday antisemitism