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Case of Sigmund Freud:

Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle

ISBN-13: 9780801849749
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Sander L. Gilman
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Local release date: 13/02/1995
Format: Paperback 320 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of medicine [MBX]

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''Mr. Gilman's work is the most convincing account of how Freud's anxiety about being Jewish is reflected in his work. After reading Mr. Gilman's exhaustive treatment, one cannot help seeing Freud as struggling to formulate a response to the Viennese notions of Jewishness in which he was inescapably steeped.''--New York Times.''Gilman [is] one of the most original and stimulating cultural historians of his generation . . . A rich . . . account that reminds us that the best cultural history does not bring us comfortingly nearer to the past, but brings its distance from us to life.''--New Statesman and Society.In The Case of Sigmund Freud, Sander Gilman traces the ''medicalization'' of Jewishness in the science and medicine of turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the ways in which Jewish physicians responded to the effort to incorporate racist biological literature into medical practice. Focusing on the new science of psychoanalysis, Gilman looks at the strategic devices Sigmund Freud employed to detach himself from the stigma of being Jewish and shows how Freud's work in psychoanalysis evolved in response to the biological discourse of the time.''Gilman is unrelenting in documenting how the biological literature of the 19th century was racist to its core. A stimulating and provocative book.''--David James Fisher, UCLA ''Historians, no matter what their field, ignore Sander Gilman's work at their peril.''--George L. Mosse, University of Wisconsin

""Gilman [is] one of the most original and stimulating cultural historians of his generation... Reminds us that the best cultural history does not bring us comfortingly nearer to the past, but brings its distance from us to life.""

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Case of Sigmund Freud:

Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle