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On Freud's Jewish Body - Mitigating Circumcisions (Paperback)
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On Freud's Jewish Body - Mitigating Circumcisions (Paperback)
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Through a symptomatic reading of Freud's corpus, from his letters
to Fliess through the case of Little Hans to Moses and Montheism,
this book demonstrates how "circumcision"-the fetishized signifier
of Jewish difference and source of knowledge about Jewish
identity-is central to Freud's construction of psychoanalysis. Jay
Geller depicts Freud as an ordinary Viennese Jew making
extraordinary attempts to mitigate the trauma of everyday
antisemitism. He situates Freud at the nexus of antisemitic,
misogynistic, colonialist, and homophobic discourses, both
scientific and popular. These held in place the double bind of
post-Emancipation and pre-Shoah Viennese Jewish life: the demand
for complete assimilation into the dominant culture, accompanied by
the assumption that Jews were constitutionally incapable of
eliminating their difference. Incarnate in the figure of the
circumcised (male) Jew, this difference haunted the Central
European cultural imagination and helped create, maintain, and
confirm Central European identities and hierarchies. Exploring
overlapping layers of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in
identity construction, theories of trauma, fetishism, and writing,
Geller looks at Freud's representations of the Jewish
body-especially circumcised penises and their displacements onto
noses. He shows how Freud reinscribed the virile masculine norm and
the at once hypervirile and effeminate Jewish other into the
discourse of psychoanalysis.
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