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The case of Sigmund Freud : medicine and identity at the fin de siècle
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- Creator
- Sander L. Gilman
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1993]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801845351, 9780801845352, 0801849748, 9780801849749
- OCLC
- ocm26894377
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-287) and index.
- Introduction: on medicine and race -- Covert meaning of race -- Freud as a Jewish physician-scientist -- Psychoanalysis, race and identity -- Anthropological construction of the Jew and the meaning of disease -- Jews' diseases -- Cultural construction of Jewish difference and the discourse on disease -- Representing the Jewish body in the literary culture -- Gaze of the Jew -- Jews in the medicine on nineteenth-century Vienna -- Conversion, circumcision and discourse -- Conversion as a biological act -- Conversion as madness -- Jewish converts
- Penises and noses -- Language and the classical world -- Degenerate foot and the search for Oedipus -- History of the Jewish foot -- Freud's footwork -- Freud's autopsy of Gradiva's foot -- Degeneration -- Seduction, parricide and crime -- Jews and criminal sexual activity -- Statistical arguments about incest -- Mixed marriages: no answer to incest -- Freud, incest and blood -- Life of a myth