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Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question
Eliza Slavet
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Description for Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question
hardcover. What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences? This book focuses on these questions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences?
These questions are at the heart of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question. In his final book, Moses and Monotheism, Freud hinted at the complexities of Jewishness and insisted that Moses was really an Egyptian. Slavet moves far beyond debates about how Freud felt about Judaism; instead, she explores what he wrote about Jewishness: what it is, how it is transmitted, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823231416
SKU
V9780823231416
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99-15
About Eliza Slavet
ELIZA SLAVET received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question
" ... a fine addition to the literature on Freud's engagement with Jewishness, and to the politics of psychoanalysis." -Psychoanalysis and History "... Smart and engaging." -Shofar "Slavet's work opens up avenues for getting out of the deadening loop of questions about religious and racial authenticity that have historically plagued the study of these groups: are they 'really' Jewish?" -Soundings: ... Read more