On Freud's Jewish Body : : Mitigating Circumcisions / / Jay Geller.

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• VerfasserIn: Geller, Jay,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Freud’s Jewish Question and Mine
• 1 The Psychopathology of Everyday Vienna: Familiarity Breeds Psychoanalysis
• 2 Not ‘‘Is Psychoanalysis a Jewish Science?’’ But ‘‘Is It une histoire juive?’’
• 3 ‘‘A glance at the nose’’: Freud’s Displaced Fetishes
• 4 A Case of Conscience: Clippings from Little Hans’s Nursery
• 5 Freud v. Freud: Entmannte Readings on the Margins of Daniel Paul Schreber’s Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken
• 6 From Männerbund to Urhorde: Freud, Blüher, and the Secessio Inversa
• 7 A Paleontological View of Freud’s Study of Judentum: Unearthing the Leitfossil of an Unlaid Ghost
• Afterword A Forensic Analysis of Sigmund’s Rod, or Cracking Open the gewachsene Fels of Psychoanalysis
• Notes
• Bibliography: Works by Sigmund Freud
• Bibliography: Works by Other Authors
• Index