1st Edition

A Dangerous Legacy Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement

By Hans Reijzer Copyright 2008
236 Pages
by Routledge

472 Pages
by Routledge

472 Pages
by Routledge

On 23rd July 1908 Sigmund Freud wrote to his colleague Karl Abraham: "Rest assured that if my name were Oberhuber an obviously non-Jewish name, in spite of everything my innovations would have met with far less resistance."From its beginning, psychoanalysis has been seen as a Jewish affair, and psychoanalysts have always been afraid of ending up in the position of the Jew - that of the outsider.... Read more
Epigraph , Prelude , Introduction , Freud: A Jew in Europe , Pfister and Freud, a friendship , Freud and the man Moses, the man Moses and Freud , Jerusalem and Hamburg: Two congresses , Two incidents in the Netherlands , International , The battle of Durban , Conclusion

Biography

Hans Reijzer