The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle
There is no category of supposed human beings that comes closer to the orangutan than does a Polish Jew, said a Bavarian writer, reflecting the eighteenth-century view that Jews were profoundly flawed. The Jewish body, popular opinion held, was malformed - from feet to nose - and predisposed to a host of illnesses ranging from the plague to hysteria. The Jewish soul had a peculiar stench. The Jewish libido had a tendency toward incest. The Jewish gaze was pathological, and precluded the possibility of unbiased observation. By the close of the nineteenth century, these ideas had found their way into European medical journals, and the medical e…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8018-4974-9
- EAN: 9780801849749
- Produktnummer: 1339978
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.1 cm 431 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 431
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
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Sander L. Gilman is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Humane Studies at Cornell University and professor of the history of psychiatry at the Cornell Medical College. [confirm]
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