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Myth and Madness - The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism (Paperback)
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Myth and Madness - The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism (Paperback)
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The persistence of anti-Semitism and its current resurgence after a
brief post-Holocaust suppression, challenge those who study human
behavior to locate the causal bases of anti-Semitism and find
approaches to combat it. This is an astonishing report of a
nine-year study of the psychodynamics of anti-Semitism. Undertaken
by Dr. Mortimer Ostow on behalf of the Psychoanalytic Research and
Development Fund, it puts flesh and bones on the discussion of
antisemitism in Sigmund Freud's 1939 classic theoretical study
Moses and Monotheism. Its close adherence to case material, and
application of psychoanalytic theory to historical data and
cultural products, yields new insights into bigotry and equity
alike. By examining prejudiced patients and their myths, Dr. Ostow
shows the common threads of anti-Semitism in a variety of national
and cultural settings, even under supposed optimal conditions when
antisemitism is stringently controlled. The work uses the
psychiatric approach, and can be read as a study of how this area
of behavioral science reveals the interplay of the individual and
the group, cultural background and material opportunities. The book
is divided into five major segments: Psychoanalytic interpretation
of anti-Semitism in the past; clinical data on anti-Semitic
sentiments in a variety of personal and national settings;
mythological dimensions of anti-Semitism and apocalyptic doctrines;
specific anti-Semitic myths including pre-Christian early and
medieval Christian, "racial" and post-modern Muslim anti-Semitism.
The final segment focuses on the pogrom mentality, including the
Nazi phenomenon, antisemitic fundamentalism, and black
anti-Semitism. Myth and Madness is informed by an amazing breadth
of learning: from biblical exegesis to modern sociology, from close
attention to mundane patients to evaluating mythic claims of the
loftiest, and at times most dangerous sort. This is a landmark
effort one that will be the touchstone for theoretical and clinical
works to come.
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