Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish

by Naomi Seidman

There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This book takes a different approach, turning its gaze not on Freud but rather on those who seek out his concealed Jewishness. What is it that propels the scholarly aim to show Freud in a Jewish light? Naomi Seidman explores attempts to "touch" Freud (and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503638561
• ISBN13: 9781503638563
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"