Translating the Jewish Freud
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Translating the Jewish Freud

Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish

  1. 364 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Translating the Jewish Freud

Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish

About this book

There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This book takes a different approach, turning its gaze not on Freud but rather on those who seek out his concealed Jewishness. What is it that propels the scholarly aim to show Freud in a Jewish light? Naomi Seidman explores attempts to "touch" Freud (and other famous Jews) through Jewish languages, seeking out his Hebrew name or evidence that he knew some Yiddish. Tracing a history of this drive to bring Freud into Jewish range, Seidman also charts Freud's responses to (and jokes about) this desire. More specifically, she reads the reception and translation of Freud in Hebrew and Yiddish as instances of the desire to touch, feel, "rescue," and connect with the famous Professor from Vienna.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: In the Freud Closet
  7. 1. Crypto-Jews
  8. 2. A Jewish Rosetta
  9. 3. Surfaces
  10. 4. The Jewish Freud in an Age of Black Lives Matter
  11. 5. Touching, Feeling, Translating Freud
  12. 6. Psychoanalysis for Diabetics
  13. 7. The Yiddish (Un)Conscious
  14. 8. A Godless Jew in the Holy Tongue
  15. 9. Jews, Dogs, and Other Animals
  16. Out of the Closet, an Epilogue
  17. Notes
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover