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ISBN Number: 9780801845352
Subtitle: (medicine and identity at the fin de siáecle )
Author: Gilman, Sander L
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Location: Baltimore :
Subject: Medicine
Subject: Jews
Subject: Antisemitism
Subject: Identification
Subject: Psychoanalytic interpretation
Subject: Judaism and psychoanalysis.
Subject: History of Medicine, 19th Cent.
Subject: Cultural Characteristics.
Subject: Antisemitism, Austria, Vienna, History.
Series Volume: no. 1
Publication Date: c1993
Cover Type: HARDCOVER
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: xiii, 298 p.
Mr. Gilman's work is the most convincing account of how Freud's anxiety about being Jewish is reflected in his work. After reading Mr. Gilman's exhaustive treatment, one cannot help seeing Freud as struggling to formulate a response to the Viennese notions of Jewishness in which he was inescapably steeped.--New York Times.Gilman is] one of the most original and stimulating cultural historians of his generation... A rich... account that reminds us that the best cultural history does not bring us comfortingly nearer to the past, but brings its distance from us to life.--New Statesman & Society.
In The Case of Sigmund Freud, Sander Gilman traces the medicalization of Jewishness in the science and medicine of turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the ways in which Jewish physicians responded to the effort to incorporate racist biological literature into medical practice. Focusing on the new science of psychoanalysis, Gilman looks at the strategic devices Sigmund Freud employed to detach himself from the stigma of being Jewish and shows how Freud's work in psychoanalysis evolved in response to the biological discourse of the time.
Gilman is unrelenting in documenting how the biological literature of the 19th century was racist to its core. A stimulating and provocative book.--David James Fisher, UCLA
Historians, no matter what their field, ignore Sander Gilman's work at their peril.--George L. Mosse, University of Wisconsin
Book News Annotation:
Traces the construction of Jewishness as a biological flaw in the
science and medicine of Vienna at the turn of the century, and how
Jewish physicians responded to the effort to incorporate the image
into medical practice. Focuses on Freud, showing how he tried to
detach himself from the stigma of being Jewish, and how his
psychoanalysis evolved in the context of the biological discourse.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-287) and index.
