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Old and Dirty Gods - Religion, Antisemitism, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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Old and Dirty Gods - Religion, Antisemitism, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
Series: Psyche and Soul
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Freud's collection of antiquities-his "old and dirty gods"-stood as
silent witnesses to the early analysts' paradoxical fascination and
hostility toward religion. Pamela Cooper-White argues that
antisemitism, reaching back centuries before the Holocaust, and the
acute perspective from the margins that it engendered among the
first analysts, stands at the very origins of psychoanalytic theory
and practice. The core insight of psychoanalytic thought- that
there is always more beneath the surface appearances of reality,
and that this "more" is among other things affective, memory-laden
and psychological-cannot fail to have had something to do with the
experiences of the first Jewish analysts in their position of
marginality and oppression in Habsburg-Catholic Vienna of the 20th
century. The book concludes with some parallels between the decades
leading to the Holocaust and the current political situation in the
U.S. and Europe, and their implications for psychoanalytic practice
today. Covering Pfister, Reik, Rank, and Spielrein as well as
Freud, Cooper-White sets out how the first analysts' position as
Europe's religious and racial "Other" shaped the development of
psychoanalysis, and how these tensions continue to affect
psychoanalysis today. Old and Dirty Gods will be of great interest
to psychoanalysts as well as religious studies scholars.
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